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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.

Claude Monet

I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
CLAUDE MONET

Bed Feeling Happiness Mental Myself
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness 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.
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Appearance Chocolate Doctrine Official Photograph
I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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Education Home Myself Work
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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Decision Happiness Myself Rage Session Stupidity
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Nature Paint
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
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
I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
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.
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Alone Better Business Hard Impossible Oneself
Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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Better Hard Myself Public Satisfaction Trouble True
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
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
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 took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.

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