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When I work I forget all the rest.

Claude Monet

I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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Fascination Myself Product Repeat Success
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
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
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Alive Important Myself Subject
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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Afraid Bad Courage Paint Physical Tragedy World
I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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Believe Change End Impossible Slave Weather Work
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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Appearance Change Existence Moments Myself Right
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
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
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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Desire Fate Herself Intimacy Law Live Nature
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Garden Happiness Learning Myself Youth
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Alone Art Better Impression Myself Work
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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Eyes Learning Myself Nature Open Time Understand

When I work I forget all the rest.

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