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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.

Claude Monet

Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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End Evening Forget Myself Responsibility Work
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
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself
I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Existence Experience Nature Paint Rule Success
Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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Better Hard Myself Public Satisfaction Trouble True
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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Brain Group Ideas Myself Wait
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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Devotion Goodness Shame Suffering True
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
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
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
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
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject

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