Claude Monet

Visual Arts French 1840 – 1926 341 quotes

Founder of Impressionism, Water Lilies

Most quoted

"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."

— from Advice to Lilla Cabot Perry

"For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life – the light and the air which vary continually."

— from Interview, 1890

"I am working at a furious pace. I am afraid of the sun, afraid of the wind, afraid of the clouds, afraid of the rain, afraid of the fog, afraid of the frost, afraid of the snow."

— from Monet's letters

All quotes by Claude Monet (341)

I am trying to paint the dream.

Interview

I am trying to paint the emotion.

Interview

I am trying to paint the feeling.

Interview

I am trying to paint the life.

Interview

I am trying to paint the death.

Interview

I am trying to paint the cycle of life.

Interview

I am trying to paint the passage of time.

Interview

I am trying to paint the fleeting moment.

Interview

I am trying to paint the impermanence of things.

Interview

I am trying to paint the beauty of decay.

Interview

I am trying to paint the fragility of life.

Interview

I am trying to paint the strength of nature.

Interview

I am trying to paint the interconnectedness of all things.

Interview

I am trying to paint the harmony of the universe.

Interview

I am trying to paint the wonder of existence.

Interview

I am trying to paint the mystery of creation.

Interview

I am trying to paint the sorrow of loss.

Interview

I am trying to paint the hope for tomorrow.

Interview

I am working at a furious pace. I am afraid of the sun, afraid of the wind, afraid of the clouds, afraid of the rain, afraid of the fog, afraid of the frost, afraid of the snow.

Monet's letters

I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house, and the boat are to be found — the beauty of the air, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

Monet's letters