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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.

Claude Monet

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
CLAUDE MONET

Anxiety Myself Painting Satisfaction Trouble
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
CLAUDE MONET

Growth Happiness Myself Paint Time Understand Water
Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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Bad Mindset Myself People Reality
I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Build Earth Happiness Kind Myself Thinking
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Choice Color Habit Myself
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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Attention Catch Dare Easy Myself People
The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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Direct Effect Impression Nature Paint
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
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
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation

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