One can do something if one can see and understand it.
CLAUDE MONETThe light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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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.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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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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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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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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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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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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