Light is the most important person in the picture.
CLAUDE MONETI’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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
-
-
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
CLAUDE MONET -
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 -
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
CLAUDE MONET -
My heart is forever in Giverny.
CLAUDE MONET -
I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
CLAUDE MONET -
I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
CLAUDE MONET -
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
CLAUDE MONET -
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
CLAUDE MONET -
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
CLAUDE MONET -
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
CLAUDE MONET -
I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
CLAUDE MONET -
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
CLAUDE MONET -
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.
CLAUDE MONET -
I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
CLAUDE MONET -
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
CLAUDE MONET