I never draw except with brush and paint.
CLAUDE MONETFor me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
More Claude Monet Quotes
-
-
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 -
Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
CLAUDE MONET -
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
CLAUDE MONET -
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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 -
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
CLAUDE MONET -
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
CLAUDE MONET -
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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 -
My life has been nothing but a failure.
CLAUDE MONET -
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
CLAUDE MONET -
A good impression is lost so quickly.
CLAUDE MONET -
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
CLAUDE MONET -
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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






