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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

Claude Monet

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 am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Miracle Myself Performance Wasted Time
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Flower Myself
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.
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Desire Fate Herself Intimacy Law Live Nature
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
Everything changes, even stone.
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Change Life One Liner Stone
Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Chocolate Doctrine Official Photograph
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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Beautiful Day Desire Discover Head Myself
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 continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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Encouragement Hard Work Myself Period Strength
I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Forever Garden Heart Love Myself Need Time Work

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