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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.

Claude Monet

I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
CLAUDE MONET

Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
Light is the most important person in the picture.
CLAUDE MONET

Important Light Person Photograph
I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
CLAUDE MONET

Country Enjoyment Forever Freedom Peace Perfection Tranquility Worry
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Alone Better Business Hard Impossible Oneself
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Myself Paint
It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
CLAUDE MONET

Attention Catch Dare Easy Myself People
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
CLAUDE MONET

Garden Goodness Myself Paint
I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
CLAUDE MONET

Bed Feeling Happiness Mental Myself
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
CLAUDE MONET

Afraid Bad Courage Paint Physical Tragedy World
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
CLAUDE MONET

Discover Listening Myself
I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
CLAUDE MONET

Exhaustion Hard Work Myself Sea See
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
CLAUDE MONET

Children Myself Rule
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
CLAUDE MONET

Future Myself Sleep
My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
CLAUDE MONET

Desire Fate Herself Intimacy Law Live Nature
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
CLAUDE MONET

Alive Important Myself Subject
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
CLAUDE MONET

Finish Myself Terrible

Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.

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