Claude Monet

Quotes by Claude Monet

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Painter · French · 1840–1926

French painter (1840–1926)

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“I want to paint the way a bird sings.”

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“I must have flowers, always and always.”

“My life has been nothing but a failure.”

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“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece”

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“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers”
— Claude Monet
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“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”
— Claude Monet
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“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece”
— Claude Monet
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— Claude Monet
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“What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.”
— Claude Monet
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— Claude Monet
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“I dont think Im made for any earthly kind of pleasure.”
— Claude Monet
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“My life has been nothing but a failure.”
— Claude Monet
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“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.”
— Claude Monet
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“Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.”
— Claude Monet
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“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
— Claude Monet
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“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
— Claude Monet
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“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”
— Claude Monet
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“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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“People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.”
— Claude Monet
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“I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.”
— Claude Monet
Better My Own Always

“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
— Claude Monet
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“I want to paint the way a bird sings.”
— Claude Monet, Monet By Himself
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“I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.”
— Claude Monet
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“I want to paint the way a bird sings.”
— Claude Monet
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