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My life has been nothing but a failure.

Claude Monet

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
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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Beautiful Bridge Home Impossible Myself Paint
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 still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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Appreciation Goodness Happiness Myself Praise Time
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
Everything changes, even stone.
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Change Life One Liner Stone
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Live Myself Regret
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
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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Appearance Change Existence Moments Myself Right
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
When I work I forget all the rest.
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Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
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
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself

My life has been nothing but a failure.

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