Claude Monet Quotes
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No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
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Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.
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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.
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My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.
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For almost two months now I've been struggling away with no result.
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I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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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.
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I would love to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but I cannot find them the way I want them.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.
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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.
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I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.
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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.
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Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad.
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I can only draw what I see.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.
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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.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.