The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
CLAUDE MONETOne day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
More Claude Monet Quotes
-
-
Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
CLAUDE MONET -
I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
CLAUDE MONET -
I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
CLAUDE MONET -
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
CLAUDE MONET -
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
CLAUDE MONET -
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
CLAUDE MONET -
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
CLAUDE MONET -
I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
CLAUDE MONET -
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONET -
Light is the most important person in the picture.
CLAUDE MONET -
Everything changes, even stone.
CLAUDE MONET -
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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 -
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
CLAUDE MONET -
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
CLAUDE MONET






