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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.

Claude Monet

Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
CLAUDE MONET

Discover Listening Myself
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Direct Effect Impression Nature Paint
Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
CLAUDE MONET

Art Deal Depression Interest Love Market Modesty Myself Price Value
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Country Enjoyment Forever Freedom Peace Perfection Tranquility Worry
I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Forever Garden Heart Love Myself Need Time Work
Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
CLAUDE MONET

Bad Mindset Myself People Reality
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
CLAUDE MONET

Brush Myself See Sight Universe
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
CLAUDE MONET

Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
CLAUDE MONET

Myself See Sight Understand
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
CLAUDE MONET

Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
CLAUDE MONET

Add Finish Hard Work Oneself Paint Touch
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Appreciation Goodness Happiness Myself Praise Time
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Criticism Myself Period Success Word
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
CLAUDE MONET

Miracle Myself Performance Wasted Time
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
CLAUDE MONET

Desire Fire Myself Paint

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