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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

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.
CLAUDE MONET

Beautiful Bridge Home Impossible Myself Paint
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
CLAUDE MONET

Miracle Myself Performance Wasted Time
Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
CLAUDE MONET

Art Deal Depression Interest Love Market Modesty Myself Price Value
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Garden Happiness Learning Myself Youth
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

Flower Forever Garden Heart Love Myself Need Time Work
It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
CLAUDE MONET

Attention Catch Dare Easy Myself People
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
CLAUDE MONET

Fire Myself Planning
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Achievement Inspirational Myself Nature Rich Source
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
CLAUDE MONET

Brush Myself See Sight Universe
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Feeling Forget Nature Oneself Paint
One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
CLAUDE MONET

Advice Draw Learning Light Oneself Sea
It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
CLAUDE MONET

Finding Myself Observation Reflection Strength Way
The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
CLAUDE MONET

Direct Effect Impression Nature Paint
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

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