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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.

Claude Monet

It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
CLAUDE MONET

Growth Happiness Myself Paint Time Understand Water
It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Alone Hard Oneself Satisfaction
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Goodness Impression Lost Quick
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Beautiful Bridge Home Impossible Myself Paint
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Desire Fate Herself Intimacy Law Live Nature
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
CLAUDE MONET

Action Better Myself Reputation
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
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
I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
CLAUDE MONET

Decision Happiness Myself Rage Session Stupidity
One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
CLAUDE MONET

Alone Better Business Hard Impossible Oneself
I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
CLAUDE MONET

Achievement Devotion Myself Paint Possible Satisfaction Time
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
CLAUDE MONET

Alive Important Myself Subject

Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.

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