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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

Claude Monet

If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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Hope Improvement Rain Work
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
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
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Build Earth Happiness Kind Myself Thinking
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
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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Advice Afraid Artist Myself Paint Young
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 do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Existence Experience Nature Paint Rule Success
It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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Finding Myself Observation Reflection Strength Way
I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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Despair God Mistake Myself Sensation
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself

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