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I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.

Claude Monet

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
I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
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
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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Afraid Bad Courage Paint Physical Tragedy World
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
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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End Evening Forget Myself Responsibility Work
I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Impression Myself Oneself Remember
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
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 had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
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
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
I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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Devotion Goodness Shame Suffering True
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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Education Home Myself Work
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
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
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
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Existence Experience Nature Paint Rule Success
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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Choice Color Habit Myself
A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Goodness Impression Lost Quick
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Alone Art Better Impression Myself Work
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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Art Force Nature Sensitive Stay Technique

I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.

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I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.

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