Monet Quotes
27 quotes by 25 authors
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Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of…
— Georges Clemenceau
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If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of…
— Marcel Proust
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Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?
— Edouard Manet
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When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, "I like mayonnaise." She just stared at me,…
— Jack Handey
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In the art world, Monet means money.
— Fiona Bruce
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
— Paul Cezanne
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You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it…
— Leon Daudet
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Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to…
— Pete Seeger
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Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the…
— Winston Churchill
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The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem’ries, Picasso your dreams.
— Robert Breault
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Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or…
— John Singer Sargent
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If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. If I…
— Dree Hemingway
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I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing.
— Celia Imrie
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Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.
— James Huneker
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I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I…
— Maurice Sendak
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The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet,…
— Marc Chagall
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It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads…
— Theophile Gautier
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Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.
— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at…
— Baz Luhrmann
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After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings,…
— Jerry Saltz
Who Wrote These Monet Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 27 Monet Quotes as follows: