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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.

Claude Monet

I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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Achievement Devotion Myself Paint Possible Satisfaction Time
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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Bad Mindset Myself People Reality
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
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’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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Artist Composition Head Oneself Painting Photograph
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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Flower Interest Myself Paint World
I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Feeling Impossible Myself Paint Power Seek
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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End Evening Forget Myself Responsibility Work
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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Darkness Death Myself Thinking
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
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning

When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.

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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.

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