Quotes of Claude Monet - somelinesforyou

“ The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. ”

- Claude Monet

“ I had so much fire in me and so many plans. ”

- Claude Monet

“ I must have flowers, always, and always. ”

- Claude Monet

“ I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint. ”

- Claude Monet

“ I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint. ”

- 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

“ It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare. ”

- Claude Monet

“ It is better to have done something than to have been someone. ”

- Claude Monet

“ I would like to paint the way a bird sings. ”

- Claude Monet

“ These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession. ”

- Claude Monet

“ Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. ”

- Claude Monet

“ All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it. ”

- 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

“ My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions. ”

- Claude Monet

“ Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. ”

- Claude Monet

“ The point is to know how to use the colors, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit. ”

- Claude Monet

“ Critic asks: ‘And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?’ – ‘The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light. ”

- Claude Monet

“ What I need most of all is color, always, always. ”

- 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 richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. ”

- Claude Monet

“ My life has been nothing but a failure. ”

- Claude Monet

“ No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. ”

- Claude Monet

“ It is better to have done something than to have been someone. ”

- Claude Monet

“ I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ”

- Claude Monet

“ I would advise young artists... to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.... If their painting doesn't improve by itself, it means that nothing can be done - and I wouldn't do anything! ”

- Claude Monet

“ No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. ”

- Claude Monet

“ For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value. ”

- Claude Monet

“ I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ”

- Claude Monet

“ Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face. ”

- Claude Monet

“ People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. ”

- Claude Monet
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