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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

Claude Monet

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
I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Feeling Impossible Myself Paint Power Seek
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
I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Flower Myself
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
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 am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself 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.
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Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
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
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
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
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Garden Happiness Learning Myself Youth
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
It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Alone Hard Oneself Satisfaction
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

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