Claude Monet Quotes
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I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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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 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!
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I insist upon 'doing it alone'. Much as I enjoyed making the trip there with Renoir as a tourist, I'd find it hard to work there together. I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.. .If he Renoir knew I was about to go, Renoir would doubtless want to join me and that would be equally disastrous for both of us.
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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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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than Sargent thinks. But he went on to agree that impressionists had noted how strong
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I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about.
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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.
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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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I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how the light runs out. Color, any color, lasts a second, sometimes 3 or 4 minutes at most.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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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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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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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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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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.