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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.

Claude Monet

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
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Live Myself Regret
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
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.
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Choice Color Habit Myself
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
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 heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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Fascination Myself Product Repeat Success
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
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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Afraid Bad Courage Paint Physical Tragedy World
Everything changes, even stone.
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Change Life One Liner Stone
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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Brain Group Ideas Myself Wait
I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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Devotion Goodness Shame Suffering True
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
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

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