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Claude Monet Quotes: "I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."

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



Claude Monet Quotes: "These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession."

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.




Claude Monet Quotes: "When I work I forget all the rest."

When I work I forget all the rest.



Claude Monet Quotes: "I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint."

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.




Claude Monet Quotes: "Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers."

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



Claude Monet Quotes: "One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice."

One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.



Claude Monet Quotes: "For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject."

For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.




Claude Monet Quotes: "Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with."

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.



Claude Monet Quotes: "I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good."

I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good.



Claude Monet Quotes: "I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough."

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.



Claude Monet Quotes: "I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste."

I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste.



Claude Monet Quotes: "One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one."

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.




Claude Monet Quotes: "The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit."

The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.



Claude Monet Quotes: "the more I live, the more I regret how little i know"

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



Claude Monet Quotes: "I can only draw what I see."

I can only draw what I see.



Claude Monet Quotes: "If only the weather would improve, there'd be hope of some work, but every day brings rain."

If only the weather would improve, there'd be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.



Claude Monet Quotes: "Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything."

Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.



Claude Monet Quotes: "The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects."

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.



Claude Monet Quotes: "I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics."

I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.



Claude Monet Quotes: "My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it."

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



Claude Monet Quotes: "I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny."

I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.



Claude Monet Quotes: "For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment."

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.



Claude Monet Quotes: "I still don't know where I am going to sleep tomorrow."

I still don't know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.



Claude Monet Quotes: "While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose."

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.



Claude Monet Quotes: "My life has been nothing but a failure."

My life has been nothing but a failure.



Claude Monet Quotes: "The older I become the more I realize of that I have to work very hard to reproduce what I search: the instantaneous. The influence of the atmosphere on the things and the light scattered throughout."

The older I become the more I realize of that I have to work very hard to reproduce what I search: the instantaneous. The influence of the atmosphere on the things and the light scattered throughout.



Claude Monet Quotes: "I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me."

I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.



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

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



Claude Monet Quotes: "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 less than the impossible."

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 less than the impossible.



Claude Monet Quotes: "I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded."

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.



Claude Monet Quotes: "These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel."

These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.



Claude Monet Quotes: "I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!"

I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!



Claude Monet Quotes: "It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group."

It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group.



Claude Monet Quotes: "It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done."

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



Claude Monet Quotes: "No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others."

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.



Claude Monet Quotes: "Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule."

Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.



Claude Monet Quotes: "Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane."

Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.



Claude Monet Quotes: "I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair."

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.



Claude Monet Quotes: "I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant."

I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.



Claude Monet Quotes: "Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room."

Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.



Claude Monet Quotes: "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."

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.



Claude Monet Quotes: "I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea."

I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.



Claude Monet Quotes: "When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working."

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.



Claude Monet Quotes: "I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity."

I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.



Claude Monet Quotes: "I never draw except with brush and paint."

I never draw except with brush and paint.



Claude Monet Quotes: "I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather."

I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.



Claude Monet Quotes: "It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!"

It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!



Claude Monet Quotes: "Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do."

Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do.



Claude Monet Quotes: "Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."

Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.