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

"I must have flowers, always and always."

- Claude Monet

""I must have flowers, always, and always.""

- Claude Monet

"Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

- Claude Monet

"The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration."

- Claude Monet

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

- Claude Monet

"I would like to paint the way a bird sings."

- Claude Monet

"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 just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you."

- Claude Monet

"I must have flowers, always, and always."

- Claude Monet

"To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at."

- 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

"It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly."

- Claude Monet

"My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature."

- Claude Monet