I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquility, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
Claude Monet
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
Claude Monet
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.
Claude Monet
It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
Claude Monet
After having seen Claude Monet in his garden, one may better understand how such a gardener became a great painter. This prodigious man is a fervent admirer of life. And when he paints, it is a means for him to create living beauty.
Maurice Kahn
What could be said about me…a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.
Claude Monet
My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I established myself here, there was nothing but a farmhouse and a poor orchard…I bought the house and little by little I enlarged and organized it…I dug, planted, weeded, myself; in the evenings the children watered.
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 perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet
Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.
Claude Monet
Every day I discover
Claude Monet
more and more
beautiful things.
It’s enough to drive one mad.
I have such a desire
to do everything,
my head is bursting with it.
I must have flowers, always, and always.
Claude Monet
