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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

Claude Monet

It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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Growth Happiness Myself Paint Time Understand Water
One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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Alone Better Business Hard Impossible Oneself
It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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Finding Myself Observation Reflection Strength Way
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 can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Alone Art Better Impression Myself Work
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Ambience Atmosphere Crazy Drive Enough
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
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 had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Impression Myself Oneself Remember
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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Beautiful Day Desire Discover Head Myself
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

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

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