"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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"I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting."
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"All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was."
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"What I need most of all is color, always, always."
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"I had so much fire in me and so many plans."
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"The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration."
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"By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me."
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"It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water."
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"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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"No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition."
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"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
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"My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece"
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"It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience."
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"My heart is forever in Giverny."
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"I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint."
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"Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things."
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"My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors."
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"I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again."
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"I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf."
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"Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it's enchanting, it's delicious, and I hope it will please you."
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