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

Claude Monet

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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Despair God Mistake Myself Sensation
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
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 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
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
It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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Attention Catch Dare Easy Myself People
A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Goodness Impression Lost Quick
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Alone Art Better Impression Myself Work
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
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 am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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Catch Nature Order
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
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.
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Appearance Chocolate Doctrine Official Photograph
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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Darkness Death Myself Thinking
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

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

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