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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
CLAUDE MONET

Direct Effect Impression Nature Paint
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
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
CLAUDE MONET

Achievement Inspirational Myself Nature Rich Source
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
CLAUDE MONET

Discover Listening Myself
Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
CLAUDE MONET

Catch Nature Order
When I work I forget all the rest.
CLAUDE MONET

Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
CLAUDE MONET

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

Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
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
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
CLAUDE MONET

Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
CLAUDE MONET

Finish Myself Terrible
I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
CLAUDE MONET

Appreciation Goodness Happiness Myself Praise Time
I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
CLAUDE MONET

Impression Myself Oneself Remember
One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
CLAUDE MONET

Advice Draw Learning Light Oneself Sea
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
CLAUDE MONET

Alone Art Better Impression Myself Work

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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