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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.

Claude Monet

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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Myself Paint Try Water Wonderful
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
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
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
I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Flower Myself
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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Achievement Devotion Myself Paint Possible Satisfaction Time
I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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Exhaustion Hard Work Myself Sea See
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
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
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
Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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Bold Delicious Enchanting Feeling Hope Nature Yourself
I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Build Earth Happiness Kind Myself Thinking
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
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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Flower Forever Garden Heart Love Myself Need Time Work
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself

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