Claude Monet Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

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

Light is the most important person in the picture.

I must have flowers, always, and always.

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

The real subject of every painting is light.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Everything changes, even stone.

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

What I need most of all is colour, always, always.

Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

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

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really continual torture.

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

I didn't become an impressionist. For as long as I can remember I always have been one.

I had so much fire in me and so many plans.

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

I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.

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

It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.

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