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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.

Claude Monet

I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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Achievement Devotion Myself Paint Possible Satisfaction Time
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
One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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Alone Better Business Hard Impossible Oneself
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
Everything changes, even stone.
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Change Life One Liner Stone
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
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
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
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
The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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Character Convey Effect Himself Impression Sincere
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Feeling Impossible Myself Paint Power Seek
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint

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