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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.

Claude Monet

I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
CLAUDE MONET

Education Home Myself Work
As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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Criticism Myself Period Success Word
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Better Hard Myself Public Satisfaction Trouble True
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
CLAUDE MONET

Discover Listening Myself
I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
CLAUDE MONET

Impression Myself Oneself Remember
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
CLAUDE MONET

Garden Goodness Myself Paint
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
I never draw except with brush and paint.
CLAUDE MONET

Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
CLAUDE MONET

Greatness Impression Paint Question Simplicity Thinking
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
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
It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
CLAUDE MONET

Finding Myself Observation Reflection Strength Way
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 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’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
CLAUDE MONET

Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient
Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
CLAUDE MONET

Catch Nature Order

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