Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
CLAUDE MONETI am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
More Claude Monet Quotes
-
-
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 -
My life has been nothing but a failure.
CLAUDE MONET -
If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
CLAUDE MONET -
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
CLAUDE MONET -
I never draw except with brush and paint.
CLAUDE MONET -
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
CLAUDE MONET -
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
CLAUDE MONET -
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 -
I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
CLAUDE MONET -
I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
CLAUDE MONET -
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONET -
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
CLAUDE MONET -
I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
CLAUDE MONET -
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
CLAUDE MONET -
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.
CLAUDE MONET