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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

Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
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
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
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
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Alive Important Myself Subject
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
Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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Greatness Impression Paint Question Simplicity Thinking
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
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
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
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking

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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