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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

Claude Monet

It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Ambience Atmosphere Crazy Drive Enough
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
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
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
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’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
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
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
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.
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Appreciation Goodness Happiness Myself Praise Time
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’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.
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Fascination Myself Product Repeat Success
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’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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Blame Chance Goodness Impotent Myself Weakness Work
I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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Believe Change End Impossible Slave Weather Work
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

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