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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

Claude Monet

It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Alone Hard Oneself Satisfaction
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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Choice Color Habit Myself
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
Everything changes, even stone.
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Change Life One Liner Stone
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
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
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
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
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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Bed Feeling Happiness Mental Myself
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
The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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Direct Effect Impression Nature Paint
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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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Better Hard Myself Public Satisfaction Trouble True
A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Goodness Impression Lost Quick

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

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