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

Claude Monet

I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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Country Enjoyment Forever Freedom Peace Perfection Tranquility Worry
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
I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Existence Experience Nature Paint Rule Success
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Flower Myself
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Garden Happiness Learning Myself Youth
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 don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Build Earth Happiness Kind Myself Thinking
I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful
I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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Decision Happiness Myself Rage Session Stupidity
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Nature Paint
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment

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