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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.

Claude Monet

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

Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
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
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 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
It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
CLAUDE MONET

Alone Hard Oneself Satisfaction
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Atmosphere Beautiful Change Light Time
Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
CLAUDE MONET

Art Deal Depression Interest Love Market Modesty Myself Price Value
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
Everything changes, even stone.
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Change Life One Liner Stone
A good impression is lost so quickly.
CLAUDE MONET

Goodness Impression Lost Quick
I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
CLAUDE MONET

Existence Experience Nature Paint Rule Success
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
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
CLAUDE MONET

Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
CLAUDE MONET

Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Interest Myself Paint World

When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.

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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.

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