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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

Claude Monet

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
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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Artist Composition Head Oneself Painting Photograph
It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
CLAUDE MONET

Ambience Atmosphere Crazy Drive Enough
My heart is forever in Giverny.
CLAUDE MONET

Heart Myself
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
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Myself Painting World
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.
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Myself Paint Try Water Wonderful
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
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
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
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
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
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
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 work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

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