Claude Monet
Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
Claude Monet
“I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.”
Claude Monet
“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
“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece”
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
“the more I live, the more I regret how little i know”
Claude Monet
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. ”
Claude Monet
“I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint...”
Claude Monet
“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”
Claude Monet
“If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!”
Claude Monet
“I can only draw what I see.”
Claude Monet
“It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.”
Claude Monet
“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
Claude Monet