The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects. Claude Monet More Quotes by Claude Monet More Quotes From Claude Monet My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece Claude Monet garden beautiful art I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint. Claude Monet performing paint miracle What I need most of all is color, always, always. Claude Monet garden color needs My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws. Claude Monet fate nature travel It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them. Claude Monet water-lily lilies thinking My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions. Claude Monet being-alone impression creativity My heart is forever in Giverny. Claude Monet my-heart forever heart Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it's enchanting, it's delicious, and I hope it will please you. Claude Monet landscape tone blue The real subject of every painting is light. Claude Monet painting light real For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject. Claude Monet alive want art I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. Claude Monet nature flower art For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment. Claude Monet landscape change doe I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting. Claude Monet gardening painting two The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. Claude Monet happiness inspirational life Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught. Claude Monet caught waiting order I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf. Claude Monet color light long Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle. Claude Monet fog block beautiful I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again. Claude Monet discouragement hard-work strength I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one. Claude Monet has-beens remember long It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water. Claude Monet learning home running
