People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field…Merely think,… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
“Water Lilies' is an extension of my life. Without the woter the lilies cannot live, as I am without art.” — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but it is… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose... — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers? — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
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… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
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