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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

Claude Monet

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
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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Art Discussion Love Myself Pretend Understand
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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Beautiful Bridge Home Impossible Myself Paint
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
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
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
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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Education Home Myself Work
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
When I work I forget all the rest.
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Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Alive Important Myself Subject
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

I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

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