Claude Monet, 1840 - 1926
Photo by Nadar (1899)
Born: 14 November 1840, Paris, France
Died: 5 December 1926, Giverny, France
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- A good impression is lost so quickly. permalink
Claude Monet - As for myself, I met with as much success as I could ever have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period. permalink
Claude Monet - Color is my day-long obsession, joy, and torment. permalink
Claude Monet - Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep. permalink
Claude Monet - 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. permalink
Claude Monet - Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. permalink
Claude Monet - 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. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value. permalink
Claude Monet - Happy are the young people who believe that it is easy. permalink
Claude Monet - I am following Nature without being able to grasp her... I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. permalink
Claude Monet - I am pleased with the exhibition, ... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste. permalink
Claude Monet - I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture. permalink
Claude Monet - I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics. permalink
Claude Monet - I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one. permalink
Claude Monet - I had so much fire in me and so many plans. permalink
Claude Monet - I haven't yet managed to capture the color of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colors I'm having to use, I'm afraid what I'm doing is just dreadful and yet I really am understating it; the light is simply terrifying. permalink
Claude Monet - on painting in Bordighera, Italy
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