Claude Monet Quotes

I must have flowers, always, and always.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

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

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint...