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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

Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
CLAUDE MONET

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.
CLAUDE MONET

Anxiety Myself Painting Satisfaction Trouble
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

Devil Live Myself Room Sleep Time
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Appreciation Goodness Happiness Myself Praise Time
Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
CLAUDE MONET

Bad Mindset Myself People Reality
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
CLAUDE MONET

Enough Life Myself Paint Time
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
CLAUDE MONET

Garden Goodness Myself Paint
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
CLAUDE MONET

Artist Composition Head Oneself Painting Photograph
I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
CLAUDE MONET

Encouragement Hard Work Myself Period Strength
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
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Myself Paint
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Character Convey Effect Himself Impression Sincere
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
CLAUDE MONET

Criticism Myself Opinion
I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
CLAUDE MONET

Build Earth Happiness Kind Myself Thinking
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
CLAUDE MONET

Eyes Learning Myself Nature Open Time Understand
I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
CLAUDE MONET

Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient

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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