Claude Monet Quotes
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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
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
— Claude Monet
I want to paint the way a bird sings.
— 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 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 insist upon 'doing it alone' ... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.
— Claude Monet
When I work I forget all the rest.
— Claude Monet
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
— 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 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
No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
— Claude Monet
Claude Monet was the incomparable painter of bright daylight...Monet was the painter of light.
— Christoph Heinrich
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
Everything changes, even stone.
— 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
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
— 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
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
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
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
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
— 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
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
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
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
— Claude Monet