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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

All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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Hope Improvement Rain Work
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
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.
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Bed Feeling Happiness Mental Myself
I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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Beautiful Bridge Home Impossible Myself Paint
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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Flower Interest Myself Paint World
As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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Criticism Myself Period Success Word
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 enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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Country Enjoyment Forever Freedom Peace Perfection Tranquility Worry
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
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Impression Myself Oneself Remember
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
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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Art Force Nature Sensitive Stay Technique
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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Add Finish Hard Work Oneself Paint Touch

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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