"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