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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Claude Monet

Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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Devil Live Myself Room Sleep Time
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Live Myself Regret
I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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Blame Chance Goodness Impotent Myself Weakness Work
I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Feeling Impossible Myself Paint Power Seek
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
One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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Advice Draw Learning Light Oneself Sea
It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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Finding Myself Observation Reflection Strength Way
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
Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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Catch Nature Order
It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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Attention Catch Dare Easy Myself People
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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Bad Mindset Myself People Reality
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.
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Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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Brush Myself See Sight Universe
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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Advice Afraid Artist Myself Paint Young
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need

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