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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

Claude Monet

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
CLAUDE MONET

Afraid Bad Courage Paint Physical Tragedy World
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
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
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
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
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
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
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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Brain Group Ideas Myself Wait
The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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Choice Color Habit Myself
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
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself

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