Claude Monet — "I am working very hard, struggling with a series of different effects, but the s…"

"The motif is insignificant for me; what I want to reproduce is what exists between the motif and me."

"How I dream of Giverny in this lovely weather and envy you for being there, you have no idea. But I am a prisoner and must see it through, despite being completely drained. It's exhausting and I'm wor…"

"I am only good at two things, and those are gardening and painting."

"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."

"My passion has been to stay in contact with nature, and to be concerned with nothing but the truth."