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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

Claude Monet

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Flower Myself
I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
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
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
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.
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Growth Happiness Myself Paint Time Understand Water
I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Feeling Impossible Myself Paint Power Seek
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
My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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Desire Fate Herself Intimacy Law Live Nature
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Miracle Myself Performance Wasted Time
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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Brush Myself See Sight Universe
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

I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

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