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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

Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
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
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Miracle Myself Performance Wasted Time
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!
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Decision Happiness Myself Rage Session Stupidity
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
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.
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Alone Better Business Hard Impossible Oneself
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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Better Hard Myself Public Satisfaction Trouble True
I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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Fascination Myself Product Repeat Success
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
When I work I forget all the rest.
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Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
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
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Live Myself Regret
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water

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