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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

When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
CLAUDE MONET

Darkness Death Myself Thinking
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
CLAUDE MONET

Miracle Myself Performance Wasted Time
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
CLAUDE MONET

Art Discussion Love Myself Pretend Understand
It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
CLAUDE MONET

Attention Catch Dare Easy Myself People
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
CLAUDE MONET

Art Force Nature Sensitive Stay Technique
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
CLAUDE MONET

Eyes Learning Myself Nature Open Time Understand
When I work I forget all the rest.
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Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
CLAUDE MONET

Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Garden Happiness Learning Myself Youth
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
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Feeling Forget Nature Oneself Paint
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
Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
CLAUDE MONET

Myself Paint Try Water Wonderful
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself
I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
CLAUDE MONET

Believe Change End Impossible Slave Weather Work
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
CLAUDE MONET

Enough Life Myself Paint Time

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