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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

Claude Monet

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’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
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
Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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Art Deal Depression Interest Love Market Modesty Myself Price Value
I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Flower Myself
I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Flower Forever Garden Heart Love Myself Need Time Work
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
Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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Myself Paint Try Water Wonderful
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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Encouragement Hard Work Myself Period Strength
It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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Attention Catch Dare Easy Myself People
One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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Advice Draw Learning Light Oneself Sea
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
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
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
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful

Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

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