"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."
-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 am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
-Claude Monet
"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
-Claude Monet
"My life has been nothing but a failure."
-Claude Monet
"No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition."
-Claude Monet
"People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love."
- Claude Monet
