Light is the most important person in the picture.
CLAUDE MONETI let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
More Claude Monet Quotes
-
-
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
CLAUDE MONET -
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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 -
It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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 -
The real subject of every painting is light.
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 would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
CLAUDE MONET -
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
CLAUDE MONET -
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONET -
Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
CLAUDE MONET -
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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 -
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
CLAUDE MONET -
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
CLAUDE MONET






