It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
CLAUDE MONETGardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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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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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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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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I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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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