Quotes by Claude Monet

About Claude Monet:

Oscar-Claude Monet is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.
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People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

Claude Monet

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

Claude Monet

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

Claude Monet

My life has been nothing but a failure.

Claude Monet

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Claude Monet

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

Claude Monet

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Claude Monet

I must have flowers, always, and always.

Claude Monet

I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

Claude Monet

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

Author Bio

  • NameClaude Monet
  • DescriptionFrench impressionist painter who lived from 1840 to 1926
  • AliasesMonet
  • BornNovember 14, 1840
  • DiedDecember 5, 1926
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPainter
  • WorksImpression, Sunrise; Garden At Sainte-Adresse; Houses Of Parliament Series; La Corniche Near Monaco