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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!

Claude Monet

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
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Alone Art Better Impression Myself Work
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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Flower Interest Myself Paint World
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
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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Exhaustion Hard Work Myself Sea See
When I work I forget all the rest.
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Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Flower Myself
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Alive Important Myself Subject
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
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
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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Feeling Forget Nature Oneself Paint

I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!

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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!

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