QUOTES FROM CLAUDE MONET
Compiled by Flo Deems
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Here are some of my favorite quotes from the French Impressionist artist, Claude Monet.
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
I can only draw what I see.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.
Everything I have earned has gone into these gardens.
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.
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.
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly. |