CLAUDE MONET FAMOUS QUOTES

Here are 28 famous quotes by Claude Monet:

“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”

“I must have flowers, always, and always.”

“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life – the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.”

“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”

“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her… I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

“I am chasing a fleeting moment of harmony and beauty—an eternal moment.”

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to know, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”

“What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.”

“I’m good for nothing except painting and gardening. My greatest masterpiece is my garden.”

“People discuss my art and pretend to know as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love.”

“I am only good when I am working.”

“The more I live, the more I regret how little attention I have paid to things.”

“I’m following nature without being able to grasp her. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME GROW QUOTES

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

“I’m not performing miracles, I’m painting.”

“I want to paint the way a bird sings.”

“The subject does not matter, what counts is to render its soul.”

“The more I paint, the more I see things differently.”

“I would advise young artists… to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.”

“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful.”

“Without fog, England would not be an island.”

“When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you – a tree, a house, a field or whatever. Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you.”

“The motif of the bridge hijacks you. It makes you forget about a certain Roland or Napoleon while occasionally recalling an insignificant battle.”

“The water lilies are an extension of myself. I am them and they are me, they are my life.”

“I love above all to catch the mood- that which makes the public feel that they exist… the artist only creates to release himself from his burden so he must needs tell others, much wants to share with others.”

“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.”

“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.”