252 Quotes by Claude Monet

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

Impression — I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it … and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.

…Every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all - my head is bursting…

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever. Merely think here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape.

Water Lilies' is an extension of my life. Without the woter the lilies cannot live, as I am without art.

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 surroundingatmosphere which gives subjects their true value.