Claude Monet Quotes
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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By way of news, I can tell you that Couture, that bad-tempered fellow, has completely given up painting. It's no great pity; in this exhibition, he had some really bad paintings.
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You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might be so good as to help me a little, as I am in quite a desperate state, and the worst is that I can no longer even work.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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I insist upon 'doing it alone'... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.
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It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.
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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.
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I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.
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My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.
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It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.
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One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.
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I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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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.
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I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.