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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.

Claude Monet

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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Encouragement Hard Work Myself Period Strength
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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Brush Myself See Sight Universe
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Nature Paint
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
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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Feeling Forget Nature Oneself Paint
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
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.
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Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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Catch Nature Order
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
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Garden Happiness Learning Myself Youth
It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Alone Hard Oneself Satisfaction
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
As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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Criticism Myself Period Success Word
I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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Appreciation Goodness Happiness Myself Praise Time

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.

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