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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.

Claude Monet

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
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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Darkness Death Myself Thinking
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
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
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
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
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
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
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
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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Art Discussion Love Myself Pretend Understand
Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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Appearance Beautiful Mysterious Place Regular
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
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
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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Eyes Learning Myself Nature Open Time Understand

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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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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