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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

Claude Monet

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 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
When I work I forget all the rest.
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Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
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
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
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
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
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
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
If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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Hope Improvement Rain Work
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’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
I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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Encouragement Hard Work Myself Period Strength
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

Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

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