"Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation."
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"For almost two months now I've been struggling away with no result."
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"One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good."
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"Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements."
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"I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance."
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"If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!"
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"What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well."
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"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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"I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home."
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"My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I established myself here, there was nothing but a farmhouse and a poor orchard...I bought the house and little by little I enlarged and organized it...I dug, planted weeded, myself; in the evenings the children watered."
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"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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"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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"Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous."
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"No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet."
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"I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones."
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"What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?"
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"I insist upon 'doing it alone'... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions."
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"As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period."
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"Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength."
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"I'm going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen's baskets. Then I'm going to turn out a few pictures to send wherever possible, given that now, first and foremost - unfortunately - I have to earn some money."
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