I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I'm very happy, very delighted. I'm setting to like a fighting cockerel, for I'm surrounded here by all that I love. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
If only the weather would improve, there'd be hope of some work, but every day brings rain. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
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
Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time. — 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
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions. — 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 work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength… — 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
