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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.

Claude Monet

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
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Alive Important Myself Subject
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
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’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient
I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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Appreciation Goodness Happiness Myself Praise Time
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
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 say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Better Hard Myself Public Satisfaction Trouble True
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
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
CLAUDE MONET

Alone Art Better Impression Myself Work

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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