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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.

Claude Monet

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
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Atmosphere Beautiful Change Light Time
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
When I work I forget all the rest.
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Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Ambience Atmosphere Crazy Drive Enough
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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Brush Myself See Sight Universe
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
I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Flower Myself
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
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
I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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Exhaustion Hard Work Myself Sea See
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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Bad Mindset Myself People Reality
One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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Advice Draw Learning Light Oneself Sea
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
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
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Alone Art Better Impression Myself Work
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Alive Important Myself Subject
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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Eyes Learning Myself Nature Open Time Understand

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