All Claude Monet Quotes
- I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm… Afraid
- I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same... All
- Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while,… Advise
- I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics. Called
- I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have… Absence
- My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time]… Aim
- I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint. Desire
- You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might… Able
- By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me. Art
- It goes without saying that I will do anything at any price to pull myself out of a situation like this [rejection] so that I… Any
- It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience. Ambience
- It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it! Completely
- 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 of… Bottom
- It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well,… Appallingly
- I never draw except with brush and paint... Brush
- I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more… Canvases
- I'm knocked out, I've never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I'm quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy... Bed
- I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since… Been
- It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved… Achieved
- It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have. Carried
- While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose... Adding
- I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. Arrogant
- I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel. Feel
- I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please;… Definitely
- Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation. Consolation