Words from Fench Impressionist Claude Monet

Claude Monet at his canvas.

• “Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”
• “I would like to paint the way a bird sings.”
• “People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love.”
• “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.”
• “Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.”
• “I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.”