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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

Claude Monet

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Atmosphere Beautiful Change Light Time
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
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
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Nature Paint
Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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Art Deal Depression Interest Love Market Modesty Myself Price Value
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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Artist Composition Head Oneself Painting Photograph
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
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Feeling Impossible Myself Paint Power Seek
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
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
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
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
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint

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