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I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.
Claude Monet
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Claude Monet
Age: 86 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 14
Died: 1926
Died: December 5
Graphic Artist
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Paris
France
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Oscar Claude Monet
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a great success, but I couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it.
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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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