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Oscar Claude Monet

About Oscar Claude Monet

Oscar Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 in Paris, France and Died on 5Th December 1926 (aged 86) Giverny, France. He was noted for his work as an impressionist, a painting style has become very popular and his love for Water Lilies and Flowers. He as a very good painter and some of his notable paintings include Corner of a Studio, Still Life with Pheasant, View at Rouelles, Le Havre and Many more.

60+ Best Claude Monet Quotes For Every Artist Inspiration

Find Inspiration and Ideas from these Claude Monet Quotes. As every Artist and Painter faces Artist Block once in a while. Be Inspired
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Find Inspiration with these Claude Monet quotes on Painting and Art

  1. I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting. – Claude Monet.

    Claude Monet - Claude Monet Quotes on Painting

  2. I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I’d go crazy. – Claude Monet.
  3. The real subject of every painting is light. – Claude Monet’s quote on Light.
  4. Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything. – Claude Monet.
  5. I know well enough in advance that you’ll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited, they’ll be a great success, but I couldn’t be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I’m certain of it. – Claude Monet.
  6. I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is. – Claude Monet.
  7. I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly. – Claude Monet.
  8. 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. – Claude Monet.
  9. I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so after Courbet has painted it so admirably, but I will try to do it in a different way. – Claude Monet.

Claude Monet Quotes about Flowers

Find out why he loves to paint flowers with these quotes

  1. I must have flowers, always, and always. – Claude Monet.
  2. Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers. – Claude Monet.
  3. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” – Claude Monet quote on Flowers.
  4. I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. – Claude Monet’s quote on Flowers.

Claude Monet Quotes about Art

Every Painter and Artist needs inspiration in his work. Find that inspiration with these Claude Monet Quotes about Art

  1. “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.
  2. “I would like to paint the way a bird sings.” – Claude Monet.
  3. “Zaandam is wonderful. There is enough to paint here for a lifetime.” – Claude Monet.
  4. “If I became a painter, it is to Eugène Boudin that I owe that fact.” – Claude Monet.
  5. “No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.”
    • Claude Monet.
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  7. “One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.” – Claude Monet.
  8. “I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.” – Claude Monet.

 

Claude Monet Quotes about Colors

Claude Monet Quotes about colors and how much Love he has for colors

  1. “Color is my day-long obsession, joy, and torment.” – Claude Monet.
  2. “Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green and red.” – Claude Monet.
  3. “What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.” – Claude Monet.
  4. “The point is to know how to use the colors, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.” – Claude Monet.
  5. “Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.” – Claude Monet.
  6. “I haven’t yet managed to capture the color of this landscape; there are moments when I’m appalled at the colors I’m having to use, I’m afraid what I’m doing is just dreadful and yet I really am understating it; the light is simply terrifying.” – Claude Monet.
  7. “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.” – Claude Monet.
  8. “I’m not performing miracles; I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.”- Claude Monet.
  9. “Now I really feel the landscape. I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious.” – Claude Monet.

 

Claude Monet Quotes about Nature and Garden

  1. “My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.” – Claude Monet.
  2. “What could be said about me… a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.” – Claude Monet.
  3. “Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.” – Claude Monet.
  4. “For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.” – Claude Monet..
  5. “My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.” – Claude Monet.
  6. Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. – Claude Monet.
  7. “My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it.” – Claude Monet.
  8. “The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.” – Claude Monet.
  9. “I work at my garden all the time and with love.” – Claude Monet.

Claude Monet Quotes about Love

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

Claude Monet Quotes about Beauty

  1. “I am weary, having worked without a break all day; how beautiful it is here, to be sure, but how difficult to paint!” – Claude Monet.
  2. “There’s lots to be learned and nature begins to grow beautiful.” – Claude Monet.
  3. “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.” – Claude Monet.
  4. “‘Without fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is the fog that gives it its magnificent breadth.” – Claude Monet.
  5. “The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.” – Claude Monet.
  6. “‘It is beautiful here in Etretat, my friend… It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all.” – Claude Monet.
  7. “These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.” – Claude Monet.
  8. “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.” – Claude Monet.
  9. “To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.” – Claude Monet.

 

Claude Monet Quotes About Water Lilies and Water

Claude Monet Loved painting Water Lilies, These Claude Monet Quote about will show you how he loves painting Water Lilies

  1. “I had planted them for the pleasure of it.” – Claude Monet, about water lilies.
  2. “I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.” – Claude Monet Quote about water lilies.
  3. “It took me time to understand my water lilies.” – Claude Monet.
  4. “Waterlilies is the extension of my life.” – Claude Monet.
  5. “Without the water, the lilies cannot survive as I’m without art.” – Claude Monet.
  6. It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was a joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water. – Claude Monet.
  7. The Thames was all gold. God, it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water. – Claude Monet.
  8. I have once more taken up things that can’t be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I’m always tackling that sort of thing! – Claude Monet.

Claude Monet Quotes on Impressionism

Monet painted in the style of what would become Impressionism in the early 1870s. Read his best quotes on Impressionism.

  1. “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.” ― Claude Monet.
  2. “A good impression is lost so quickly.” – Claude Monet.
  3. “Impressionism is only a direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than John Singer Sargent thinks.” ― Claude Monet.
  4. “My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.” ― Claude Monet.
  5. “Ninety percent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in Ruskin’s Elements.” ― Claude Monet.

Claude Monet Quotes about Criticism

  1. Critic asks: ‘And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?’ – ‘The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.
  2. I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
  3. As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
  4. Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
  5. 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.

 

Inspirational Claude Monet Quote on Painting Art

  1. “Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand as if it were necessary to understand when it is simply necessary to love.” – Claude Monet.


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