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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

Claude Monet

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.
CLAUDE MONET

Desire Fate Herself Intimacy Law Live Nature
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
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
CLAUDE MONET

Afraid Bad Courage Paint Physical Tragedy World
The real subject of every painting is light.
CLAUDE MONET

Light Painting Reality Subject
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
CLAUDE MONET

Enchanting Myself Reveal
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
CLAUDE MONET

Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Interest Myself Paint World
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Alone Better Business Hard Impossible Oneself
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
I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Flower Myself
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

Despair God Mistake Myself Sensation
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
CLAUDE MONET

Build Earth Happiness Kind Myself Thinking
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
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.
CLAUDE MONET

End Evening Forget Myself Responsibility Work
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
CLAUDE MONET

Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way

I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

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