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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!

Claude Monet

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
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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Anxiety Myself Painting Satisfaction Trouble
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness 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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Flower Myself Nature Paint
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
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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Appearance Beautiful Mysterious Place Regular
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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Art Discussion Love Myself Pretend Understand
I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Build Earth Happiness Kind Myself Thinking
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 must have flowers, always, and always.
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Flower Myself
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Alive Important Myself Subject
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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Add Finish Hard Work Oneself Paint Touch
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

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