Quotes by Claude Monet

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

“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.”

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

“I would advise young artists . . . to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly . . . . If their painting doesnt improve by itself, it means that nothing can be done - and I wouldnt do anything!”

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

“My life has been nothing but a failure”

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

“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.”

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

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

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

I must have flowers, always and always.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

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

I must have flowers, always, and always.

I want to paint the way a bird sings.

My life has been nothing but a failure.