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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.

Claude Monet

I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
CLAUDE MONET

Garden Goodness Myself Paint
I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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Country Enjoyment Forever Freedom Peace Perfection Tranquility Worry
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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Desire Fate Herself Intimacy Law Live Nature
I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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Decision Happiness Myself Rage Session Stupidity
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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Brush Myself See Sight Universe
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’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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Fascination Myself Product Repeat Success
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
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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Criticism Myself Period Success Word
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.

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