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

“Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep. ”
- Claude Monet

“I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics. ”
- Claude Monet

“I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture. ”
- Claude Monet

“I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel. ”
- Claude Monet

“No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet. ”
- Claude Monet

“My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.”
- Claude Monet

“One can do something if one can see and understand it...”
- Claude Monet

“I am only good at two things, and those are: gardening and painting. ”
- Claude Monet

“Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule. ”
- Claude Monet

“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. ”
- Claude Monet

“Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly. ”
- Claude Monet

“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her... I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ”
- Claude Monet

“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. ”
- Claude Monet

“I can only draw what I see. ”
- Claude Monet

“Everything I have earned has gone into these gardens. ”
- Claude Monet

“It took me time to understand my waterlilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them. ”
- Claude Monet

“ It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly. ”
- Claude Monet

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ”
- Claude Monet

“ No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. ”
- Claude Monet

“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. ”
- Claude Monet