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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.

Claude Monet

I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
CLAUDE MONET

Devotion Goodness Shame Suffering True
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Nature Paint
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
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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Art Force Nature Sensitive Stay Technique
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
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
Everything changes, even stone.
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Change Life One Liner Stone
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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Darkness Death Myself Thinking
When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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Feeling Forget Nature Oneself Paint
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
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

I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.

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