I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics. Claude Monet More Quotes by Claude Monet More Quotes From Claude Monet I had so much fire in me and so many plans. Claude Monet burning plans fire I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this. Claude Monet perfect worry peace 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. Claude Monet color light running 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. Claude Monet giving mean art 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. Claude Monet tasks solitude facts 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. Claude Monet artist sea needs My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it. Claude Monet understood nature eye One can do something if one can see and understand it. Claude Monet can-do-something understanding can-do I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture. Claude Monet torture painting depression Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with. Claude Monet mediocrity trouble enough I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint. Claude Monet fine paint desire I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny. Claude Monet garden flower heart I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure. Claude Monet pleasure kind thinking Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything. Claude Monet gardening painting 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 finishing painting impossible I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. Claude Monet nature flower art These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession. Claude Monet landscape reflection water Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad Claude Monet criticism mind people 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. Claude Monet choices done use Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face. Claude Monet color joy long
