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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

Claude Monet

Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Alone Hard Oneself Satisfaction
A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Goodness Impression Lost Quick
I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Build Earth Happiness Kind Myself 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
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
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
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 let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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Despair God Mistake Myself Sensation
The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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Character Convey Effect Himself Impression Sincere
The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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Direct Effect Impression Nature Paint
If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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Hope Improvement Rain Work
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life 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 want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

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