Claude Monet Quotes

Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases.

Claude Monet

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

My life has been nothing but a failure.

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

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

Claude Monet

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

Claude Monet