The Most Amazing Quotes By Claude Monet
“…Every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all – my head is bursting… ”
“Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails.”
“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”
“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”
“Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases.”
“Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.”
“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.”
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
“Finally here is a beautiful day, a superb sun like at Giverny. So I worked without stopping, for the tide at this moment is just as I need it for several motifs. This has bucked me up a bit.”
“For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.”
“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
“I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and I would like to do everything, so I use up and squander lots of color, for there are trials to be made.”
“I am working, but when one has ceased to do seascape, it is the devil afterward – very difficult; it changes at every instant, and here the weather varies several times in the same day.”
“I can only draw what I see.”
“I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I’ve done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting.”
“I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.”
“I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.”
“I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.”
“I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no.”
“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
“I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing.”
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
“I want to paint the way a bird sings.”
“I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.”
“I wear myself out and struggle with the sun. And what a sun here! It would be necessary to paint here with gold and gemstones. It is wonderful.”
“I will do water – beautiful, blue water.”
“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.”
“If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!”
“I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint…”
“It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that she again become calm.”
“It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.”
“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece”
“My life has been nothing but a failure.”
“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.”
“No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself…”
“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.”
“The further I get, the more I regret how little I know…”
“The more I live, the more I regret how little i know”
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”
“There, the grand lines of mountain and sea are admirable, and apart from the exotic vegetation that is here, Monte Carlo is certainly the most beautiful spot of the entire coast: the motifs there are more complete, more picturelike, and consequently easier to execute.”
“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, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.”
“What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.”
“…Every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all – my head is bursting… ”
“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment. ”
“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. ”
“Everyday 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. ”
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. ”
“””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. “””
“I can only draw what I see. ”
“I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure. ”
“I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel. ”
“I must have flowers, always and always. ”
“I must have flowers. Always and always. ”
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers ”
“I want to paint the way a bird sings. ”
“I would like to paint the way a bird sings. ”
“If the world really looks like that I will paint no more! ”
“I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint…”
“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. ”
“It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly. ”
“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece ”
“No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself… ”
“The further I get, the more I regret how little I know… ”
“the more I live, the more I regret how little i know ”
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. ”
“The Seine. I have painted it all my life, at all hours of the day, at all times of the year, from Paris to the sea…Argenteuil, Poissy, Vétheuil, Giverny, Rouen, Le Havre.”
“Water Lilies’ is an extension of my life. Without the woter the lilies cannot live, as I am without art. ”
“What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence. ”
“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. ”
“Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails.”
“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”
“Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases.”
“Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.”
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
“Finally here is a beautiful day, a superb sun like at Giverny. So I worked without stopping, for the tide at this moment is just as I need it for several motifs. This has bucked me up a bit.”
“For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.”
“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
“I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and I would like to do everything, so I use up and squander lots of color, for there are trials to be made.”
“I am working, but when one has ceased to do seascape, it is the devil afterward – very difficult; it changes at every instant, and here the weather varies several times in the same day.”
“I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I’ve done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting.”
“I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.”
“I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no.”
“I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing.”
“I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.”
“I wear myself out and struggle with the sun. And what a sun here! It would be necessary to paint here with gold and gemstones. It is wonderful.”
“I will do water – beautiful, blue water.”
“It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that she again become calm.”
“My life has been nothing but a failure.”
“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.”
“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.”
“There, the grand lines of mountain and sea are admirable, and apart from the exotic vegetation that is here, Monte Carlo is certainly the most beautiful spot of the entire coast: the motifs there are more complete, more picturelike, and consequently easier to execute.”
“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, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.”
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