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Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it. — Claude Monet

I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics. — Claude Monet

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws. — Claude Monet

... Every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all - my head is bursting ... — Claude Monet

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly. — Claude Monet

I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. — Claude Monet

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it. — Claude Monet

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in ... Ruskin's Elements. — Claude Monet

It is better to have done something than to have been someone. — Claude Monet

I want to paint the way a bird sings. — Claude Monet

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers. — Claude Monet

The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water. — Claude Monet

I'm knocked out, I've never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I'm quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy ... — 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. — Claude Monet

Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane. — Claude Monet

It is only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before. — Claude Monet

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint ... — Claude Monet

I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain. — Claude Monet

I must have flowers, always, and always. — Claude Monet

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me. — Claude Monet

It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience. — Claude Monet

I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home. — Claude Monet

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession. — Claude Monet

I insist upon 'doing it alone' ... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions. — Claude Monet

I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light. — Claude Monet

When I work I forget all the rest. — Claude Monet

What I need most of all is color, always, always. — Claude Monet

I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted ... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea. — Claude Monet

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute. — Claude Monet

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive. — Claude Monet

I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing! — Claude Monet

All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was. — Claude Monet

I would love to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but I cannot find them the way I want them. — Claude Monet

The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit. — Claude Monet

I don't think I'm made for any earthly kind of pleasure. — Claude Monet

It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it! — Claude Monet

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly. — Claude Monet

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence. — Claude Monet

I would like to paint the way a bird sings. — Claude Monet

To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it ... — Claude Monet

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet. — Claude Monet

My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions. — Claude Monet

Claude Monet was the incomparable painter of bright daylight...Monet was the painter of light. — Christoph Heinrich

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself ... — Claude Monet

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. — Claude Monet

For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject. — Claude Monet

I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy. — Claude Monet

Everything changes, even stone. — Claude Monet

I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one. — Claude Monet

I never draw except with brush and paint ... — Claude Monet

I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny. — Claude Monet

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture. — Claude Monet

One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice. — Claude Monet

I had so much fire in me and so many plans ... — Claude Monet

Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything. — Claude Monet

I can only draw what I see. — Claude Monet

For almost two months now I've been struggling away with no result. — Claude Monet

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. — Claude Monet

I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather. — Claude Monet

If the world really looks like that I will paint no more! — Claude Monet

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. — Claude Monet

I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting. — Claude Monet

Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep. — Claude Monet

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects. — Claude Monet

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare. — Claude Monet

Light is the most important person in the picture. — Claude Monet

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint. — Claude Monet

If only the weather would improve, there'd be hope of some work, but every day brings rain. — Claude Monet

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. — Claude Monet

I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel. — Claude Monet

It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies. — Claude Monet

Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught. — Claude Monet

It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have. — Claude Monet

Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation. — Claude Monet

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose ... — Claude Monet

What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers? — Claude Monet

I'm very happy, very delighted. I'm setting to like a fighting cockerel, for I'm surrounded here by all that I love. — Claude Monet

When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more. — Claude Monet

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it. — Claude Monet

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. — Claude Monet

What could be said about me ... a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well. — Claude Monet

Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule. — Claude Monet

One can do something if one can see and understand it ... — Claude Monet

The further I get, the more I regret how little I know ... — Claude Monet

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working ... — Claude Monet

My heart is forever in Giverny. — Claude Monet

Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things. — Claude Monet

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. — Claude Monet

Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of blue and pink: it's enchanting, it's delicious. — Claude Monet

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at. — Claude Monet

It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done. — Claude Monet

Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light. — Claude Monet

I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about. — Claude Monet

A good impression is lost so quickly ... — Claude Monet

Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad — Claude Monet

The more I live, the more I regret how little i know — Claude Monet

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. — Claude Monet

The real subject of every painting is light. — Claude Monet

Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room ... — Claude Monet

Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly. — Claude Monet