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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

Claude Monet

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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Appreciation Goodness Happiness Myself Praise Time
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.
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Anxiety Myself Painting Satisfaction Trouble
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
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
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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Myself Paint Try Water Wonderful
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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Devil Live Myself Room Sleep Time
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
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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Feeling Forget Nature Oneself Paint
I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Impression Myself Oneself Remember
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself

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