Quotes by Claude Monet

• I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
• People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
• No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
• I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
• Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
• Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
• My life has been nothing but a failure.
• Life is like a camera—focus on what's important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t work out, take another shot.
• Creativity is the revolutionary defiance against monotony—paint the skies your own way.