Quotes from 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.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

I must have flowers, always and always.

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

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

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.

The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

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

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

the more I live, the more I regret how little i know

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

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

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint...

Everyday 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.

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

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself…

I don't think I'm made for any earthly kind of pleasure.