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One can do something if one can see and understand it.

Claude Monet

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
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
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
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
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
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Alone Art Better Impression Myself Work
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
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 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
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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Beautiful Day Desire Discover Head Myself
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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Anxiety Myself Painting Satisfaction Trouble
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

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