QUOTES BY MONET

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

“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her.” – Monet

“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” – Monet

“It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.” – Monet

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

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

“I am doing what I can with what I have.” – Monet

“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment.” – Monet

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

“I am following nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” – Monet

“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” – Monet

“Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.” – Monet

“I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.” – Monet

“I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found–the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing short of impossible.” – Monet INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT LEADERSHIP

“I am following monochromatic colors faithfully, but I sometimes imbue it with the little rainbow colours.” – Monet

“I am in raptures, Madame. I can barely eat, drink, or sleep. I hardly feel my body. Each inhalation of air fills me with such pleasure that I think I might burst open. I see a million new beauties in every blade of grass, leaf, flower, and face.” – Monet

“I’m good at drawing vertebrates. I have three hands.” – Monet

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

“My only merit lies in having painted directly in front of nature.” – Monet

“To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.” – Monet

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

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

“I feel as though I’ve woken up in a completely different world each time I’ve opened my eyes.” – Monet

“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 exact color and shape, until it gives you your own naive impression of the scene before you.” – Monet

“The motif is insignificant for me; what I want to reproduce is what lies between the motif and me.” – Monet

“I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don’t exist for me, only the surroundings matter.” – Monet