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

Claude Monet

It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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Growth Happiness Myself Paint Time Understand Water
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
Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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End Evening Forget Myself Responsibility Work
I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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Bed Feeling Happiness Mental Myself
A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Goodness Impression Lost Quick
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
CLAUDE MONET

Advice Afraid Artist Myself Paint Young
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
CLAUDE MONET

Garden Goodness Myself Paint
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Art Deal Depression Interest Love Market Modesty Myself Price Value
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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Brain Group Ideas Myself Wait
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Beautiful Mysterious Place Regular
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint

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