I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture. — 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'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint... — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy. — 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
I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one. — 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
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
I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but… — 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
I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube,… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a… — 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
Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I do have a dream, a tableau of the bathing place of La Grenouillère, for which I've done some bad pochades (sketches),… — 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
The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so… — 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
Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly. — 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
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
