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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.

Claude Monet

It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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Finding Myself Observation Reflection Strength Way
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
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.
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Appearance Beautiful Mysterious Place Regular
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Garden Happiness Learning Myself Youth
I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Existence Experience Nature Paint Rule Success
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself
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 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 am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
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
Everything changes, even stone.
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Change Life One Liner Stone
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
Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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Appearance Chocolate Doctrine Official Photograph
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Atmosphere Beautiful Change Light Time
I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Flower Myself

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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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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