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Top 120 Claude Monet Quotes (2025 Update)
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Claude Monet Quote: “The essence of the motif is the mirror of water, whose appearance alters at every moment.”
Claude Monet Quote: “I’m not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I’ll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I’m going to order some more canvases...”
Claude Monet Quote: “The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to be turned out of this dear little house where I led a simple life and was able to work so well. I do not know what will become of us...”
Claude Monet Quote: “When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working...”
Claude Monet Quote: “Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.”
Claude Monet Quote: “I’m quite content: although what I’m doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same...”
Claude Monet Quote: “It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.”
Claude Monet Quote: “I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.”
Claude Monet Quote: “My heart is forever in Giverny.”
Claude Monet Quote: “I’ve spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please; nothing satisfies me...”
Claude Monet Quote: “What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It’s a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can’t do any thing else. I have only one interest.”
Claude Monet Quote: “I’ve always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about.”
Claude Monet Quote: “I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.”
Claude Monet Quote: “I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.”
Claude Monet Quote: “When I work I forget all the rest.”
Claude Monet Quote: “Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.”
Claude Monet Quote: “One can do something if one can see and understand it...”
Claude Monet Quote: “As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.”
Claude Monet Quote: “I’m going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen’s baskets. Then I’m going to turn out a few pictures to send wherever possible, given that now, first and foremost – unfortunately – I have to earn some money.”
Claude Monet Quote: “I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.”
Claude Monet Quote: “To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there’s brilliant sunshine but I don’t feel up to looking at it...”
Claude Monet Quote: “I have once more taken up things that can’t be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I’m always tackling that sort of thing!”
Claude Monet Quote: “I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.”
Claude Monet Quote: “Think of me getting up before 6, I’m at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It’s murderous...”
Claude Monet Quote: “By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.”
Claude Monet Quote: “It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs – that way starvation lies.”
Claude Monet Quote: “For almost two months now I’ve been struggling away with no result.”
Claude Monet Quote: “Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.”
Claude Monet Quote: “I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.”
Claude Monet Quote: “I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.”
Claude Monet Quote: “I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.”
Claude Monet Quote: “I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.”
Claude Monet Quote: “You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might be so good as to help me a little, as I am in quite a desperate state, and the worst is that I can no longer even work.”
Claude Monet Quote: “Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.”
Claude Monet Quote: “I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I’d go crazy.”
Claude Monet Quote: “I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.”
Claude Monet Quote: “I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.”
Claude Monet Quote: “I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and I would like to do everything, so I use up and squander lots of color, for there are trials to be made.”
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