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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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Advice Draw Learning Light Oneself Sea
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
I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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Encouragement Hard Work Myself Period Strength
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
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
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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Afraid Bad Courage Paint Physical Tragedy World
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
When I work I forget all the rest.
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Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Nature Paint
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Flower Forever Garden Heart Love Myself Need Time Work
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
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
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Live Myself Regret
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Miracle Myself Performance Wasted Time

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

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