Claude Monet Quotes

I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
CLAUDE MONET

Existence Experience Nature Paint Rule Success
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

Feeling Impossible Paint Power Seek
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Paint World
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

Better Hard Public Satisfaction Trouble True
I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
CLAUDE MONET

Blame Chance Goodness Impotent Weakness Work
I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
CLAUDE MONET

Impression Oneself Remember
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
CLAUDE MONET

Desire Paint
I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
CLAUDE MONET

Country Enjoyment Forever Freedom Peace Perfection Tranquility Worry
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

Bad Mindset People Reality
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
CLAUDE MONET

Obsession Reflection Water

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