When I work I forget all the rest. 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 burningplansfire 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 perfectworrypeace 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 colorlightrunning 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 givingmeanart 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 taskssolitudefacts 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 artistseaneeds My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it. Claude Monet understoodnatureeye One can do something if one can see and understand it. Claude Monet can-do-somethingunderstandingcan-do I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture. Claude Monet torturepaintingdepression 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 mediocritytroubleenough I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint. Claude Monet finepaintdesire 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 gardenflowerheart I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure. Claude Monet pleasurekindthinking Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything. Claude Monet gardeningpainting 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 finishingpaintingimpossible I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. Claude Monet natureflowerart These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession. Claude Monet landscapereflectionwater 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 criticismmindpeople 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 choicesdoneuse 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 colorjoylong
