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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
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
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
I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
CLAUDE MONET

Devotion Goodness Shame Suffering True
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
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 must have flowers, always, and always.
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Flower Myself
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Change Existence Moments Myself Right
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Feeling Forget Nature Oneself Paint
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
CLAUDE MONET

Believe Change End Impossible Slave Weather Work
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
CLAUDE MONET

Garden Goodness Myself Paint
My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
CLAUDE MONET

Desire Fate Herself Intimacy Law Live Nature

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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