black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Everything changes, even stone.

Claude Monet

I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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Decision Happiness Myself Rage Session Stupidity
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.
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Bed Feeling Happiness Mental Myself
No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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Anxiety Myself Painting Satisfaction Trouble
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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Brain Group Ideas Myself Wait
I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient
It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Alone Hard Oneself Satisfaction
A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Goodness Impression Lost Quick
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
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
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
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
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
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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Appearance Change Existence Moments Myself Right

Everything changes, even stone.

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