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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

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

Flower Garden Happiness Learning Myself Youth
I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
CLAUDE MONET

Fascination Myself Product Repeat Success
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 don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
CLAUDE MONET

Build Earth Happiness Kind Myself Thinking
I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
CLAUDE MONET

Exhaustion Hard Work Myself Sea See
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
CLAUDE MONET

Artist Composition Head Oneself Painting Photograph
Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Beautiful Mysterious Place Regular
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.
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Devotion Goodness Shame Suffering True
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Myself Paint
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Character Convey Effect Himself Impression Sincere
Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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End Evening Forget Myself Responsibility Work
If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
CLAUDE MONET

Hope Improvement Rain Work
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
CLAUDE MONET

Art Force Nature Sensitive Stay Technique
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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Appearance Change Existence Moments Myself Right

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

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