The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
CLAUDE MONETColor is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
More Claude Monet Quotes
-
-
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.
CLAUDE MONET -
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
CLAUDE MONET -
I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
CLAUDE MONET -
Every day 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 must have flowers, always, and always.
CLAUDE MONET -
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
CLAUDE MONET -
No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
CLAUDE MONET -
I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
CLAUDE MONET -
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
CLAUDE MONET -
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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 -
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 -
Everything changes, even stone.
CLAUDE MONET -
Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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