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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

Claude Monet

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’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

Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Devotion Goodness Shame Suffering True
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
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
CLAUDE MONET

Children Myself Rule
One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
CLAUDE MONET

Advice Draw Learning Light Oneself Sea
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
CLAUDE MONET

Action Better Myself Reputation
I never draw except with brush and paint.
CLAUDE MONET

Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
CLAUDE MONET

Miracle Myself Performance Wasted Time
Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
CLAUDE MONET

Catch Nature Order
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
CLAUDE MONET

Brain Group Ideas Myself Wait
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
CLAUDE MONET

Desire Fire 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
I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
CLAUDE MONET

Feeling Impossible Myself Paint Power Seek
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Direct Effect Impression Nature Paint
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

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

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