Long Quotes by 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

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

My life has been nothing but a failure.

— Claude Monet

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

I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

— Claude Monet

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

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

— Claude Monet

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

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose...

— Claude Monet

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

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

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

It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be…

— Claude Monet

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.

— Claude Monet

It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.

— Claude Monet