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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

Claude Monet

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
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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Darkness Death Myself Thinking
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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Growth Happiness Myself Paint Time Understand Water
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
My heart is forever in Giverny.
CLAUDE MONET

Heart Myself
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 am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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Beautiful Day Desire Discover Head Myself
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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Anxiety Myself Painting Satisfaction Trouble
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
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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Feeling Forget Nature Oneself Paint
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
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
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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Character Convey Effect Himself Impression Sincere

I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

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