Monet Quotes

I must have flowers, always, and always. – Claude Monet

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. – Claude Monet

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment. – Claude Monet

Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. – Claude Monet

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

I don’t think I’m made for any worldly things. – Claude Monet

The more I live, the more I regret how little I know. – Claude Monet

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

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

The object of painting a picture is not to make a picture – however unreasonable this may sound. The picture, if a picture results, is a byproduct and may be useful, valuable, interesting as a sign of what has past. The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. – Claude Monet

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

It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them. – Claude Monet

Monet Quotes part 2

Every artist was first an amateur. – Claude Monet

I don’t think I’m made for any worldly things. – Claude Monet

I can only draw what I see. – Claude Monet

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. – Claude Monet

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. – Claude 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. – Claude Monet

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. – Claude Monet

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to caress his canvas too. – Claude Monet

I want the unattainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that’s the end. They’ve arrived. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible. – Claude Monet

In order to see, we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at. – Claude Monet

I can only draw what I see. – Claude Monet

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

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

I’m working almost continuously, yet it is not work. For an impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. – Claude Monet

Do you know what frees one from this captivity? It is every deep serious affection. Being friends, being brothers, love, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives. – Claude Monet

I would like to paint the way a bird signs. – Claude Monet

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment. – Claude Monet

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. – Claude Monet

The more I live, the more I regret how little I know. – Claude Monet

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not to just depict it or criticize it, but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. – Claude Monet

I must have flowers, always, and always. – Claude Monet

I must have flowers, always, and always. – Claude Monet

I would like to paint the way a bird sings. – Claude Monet

Many years ago I recognized that if you want a comment on a picture you must put something of yourself into it, put in your presence, in the same way as when we say regarding an individual that he has quite a personality. One is not surprised by what he says, for the individual is not repeating some old phrases, but using his own ability; one notices his personality; that is what counts. I believe it is the only thing in life that counts. – Claude Monet

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. – Claude Monet

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. – Claude Monet

The object of painting a picture is not to make a picture – however unreasonable this may sound. The picture, if a picture results, is a byproduct and may be useful, valuable, interesting as a sign of what has past. The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. – Claude Monet

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. – Claude Monet

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. – Claude Monet

It’s something that lives forever, that goes on from one generation to the next, which is in us, the power to see positively… When it was ready for transport, I noticed a resemblance to mummies. That attitude of taking the work with them is so hopeful. The Egyptians were right. – Claude Monet

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. – Claude Monet

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

I finally brought myself to look at the shores of the Seine. They look marvelous since there’s water, ships, greenery, beautiful terraces, everything someone could imagine. – Claude Monet

I try to paint and draw like someone who is singing an aria… I tries to do my utmost. But it is difficult! – Claude Monet

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. – Claude Monet

I’m working almost continuously, yet it is not work. For an impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. – Claude Monet

Why do you always write with such mystery? – Claude Monet

I can only draw what I see. – Claude Monet