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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

Claude Monet

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
Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
CLAUDE MONET

Bold Delicious Enchanting Feeling Hope Nature Yourself
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
I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
CLAUDE MONET

Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Chocolate Doctrine Official Photograph
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 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
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
CLAUDE MONET

Desire Fire Myself Paint
It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
CLAUDE MONET

Finding Myself Observation Reflection Strength Way
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
CLAUDE MONET

Action Better Myself Reputation
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
CLAUDE MONET

Myself See Sight Understand
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
CLAUDE MONET

Garden Goodness Myself Paint
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
CLAUDE MONET

Enchanting Myself Reveal
I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
CLAUDE MONET

Impression Myself Oneself Remember
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
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 am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

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