Claude Monet's Quotes

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

Claude Monet

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

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

My life has been nothing but a failure.

Claude Monet

Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.

Claude Monet

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

Claude Monet

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

Claude Monet

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

Claude Monet