Monet Quotes

I am following nature without being able to grasp her… I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. – Claude Monet

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

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

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

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

Give me the landscape of my youth, and I will create the world. – Claude Monet

I can only draw what I see. – Claude Monet

Every artist was first an amateur. – Claude Monet

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature. – Claude Monet

I am chasing light. – Claude Monet

Painting is by nature a luminous language. – Claude Monet

I am driven to paint the same subject over and over again, until I have caught its true essence. – Claude Monet

I am my own prophet. – Claude Monet

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

I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that’s it. I want to paint the air that surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat—the beauty of the light in which they exist. – Claude Monet

The more I live, the more I regret how little I know. – 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. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value. – Claude Monet

The critic has no right to criticize because he has never been on the battlefield. – Claude Monet

I saw only the colors before me. – 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

If you are not copying nature, then you are not painting. – Claude Monet

There is no blue without yellow and without orange. – Claude Monet

I drink and eat nature without stint… I feel myself transported with joy at the sight of flowers thus. – Claude Monet

I’m good for nothing, except painting and gardening. – Claude Monet

I am stupidly proud of my landscapes. – Claude Monet

At heart, I am just a simple man, striving to create art that speaks to the soul. – Claude Monet

I feel a little guilty at a lack of time to learn more. – Claude Monet

I can only draw what I see. – Claude Monet

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. – Claude Monet

Color is my day-long obsession, joy, and torment. – Claude Monet

I can only draw what I see. – Claude Monet

Color is my day-long obsession, joy, and torment. – Claude Monet

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

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

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

Give me the landscape of my youth, and I will create the world. – Claude Monet

I enjoy painting flowers, but I find landscape much more fascinating. – Claude Monet

It is not only out of doors that I find my subjects. – Claude Monet

I am an artist… before it is anything else. – Claude Monet

I’m only happy when I’m working. – Claude Monet

I can only draw what I see. – Claude Monet

Color is my day-long obsession, joy, and torment. – Claude Monet

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

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

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