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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Claude Monet

One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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Alone Better Business Hard Impossible Oneself
It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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Growth Happiness Myself Paint Time Understand Water
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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Beautiful Day Desire Discover Head Myself
I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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Fascination Myself Product Repeat Success
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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Devotion Goodness Shame Suffering True
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
CLAUDE MONET

Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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Add Finish Hard Work Oneself Paint Touch
I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Impression Myself Oneself Remember
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Miracle Myself Performance Wasted Time
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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Choice Color Habit Myself
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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Afraid Bad Courage Paint Physical Tragedy World

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