When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more. — 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
Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without… — 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
Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by… — 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
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
It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up… — 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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