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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.

Claude Monet

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’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
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’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 is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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Believe Change End Impossible Slave Weather Work
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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Flower Interest Myself Paint World
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 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
Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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Greatness Impression Paint Question Simplicity Thinking
One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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Alone Better Business Hard Impossible Oneself
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
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 didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Impression Myself Oneself Remember

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