Claude Monet Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.

  Claude Monet

  Light, Matter, Painting

• 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

  Art, Painting, Method

• Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

  Claude Monet

  Motivational, Art, Color

  Claude Monet (1969). “Claude Monet”

• I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

  Claude Monet

  Finishing, Impossible, Painting

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

• I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

  Claude Monet

  Depression, Painting, Torture

• While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.

  Claude Monet

  Finishing, Might, Painting

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

• It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.

  Claude Monet

  Thinking, Water Lily, Lilies

• I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

  Claude Monet

  Two, Gardening, Painting

• I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy.

  Claude Monet

  Crazy, Thinking, Painting

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

• The real subject of every painting is light.

  Claude Monet

  Real, Light, Painting

• I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

  Claude Monet

  Artist, Long, Painting

• Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while, Manet took me aside and whispered, 'You're on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future - do advise him to give up painting! You can see for yourself that it's not his metier at all.

  Claude Monet

  Children, Giving Up, Wife

• 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

  Past, Criticism, Done

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

• 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

  Flower, Men, Garden

• I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so after Courbet has painted it so admirably, but I will try to do it in a different way.

  Claude Monet

  Trying, Different, Way

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

• Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

  Claude Monet

  Elements, Painting, Ninety

• 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

  Determination, Painting, Absence

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

• I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away... what a rage I was in!

  Claude Monet

  Morning, Mistake, Stupid

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

• Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

  Claude Monet

  Gardening, Painting

  Claude Monet (2007). “Monet: a visit to Giverny”

• My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Mean, Giving

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

• I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a great success, but I couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it.

  Claude Monet

  Perfect, Painting, Enough

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

• Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Flower, World

  Christoph Heinrich, Claude Monet (1994). “Monet”, Taschen

• 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

  Appreciate, Painting, Pleasure

  Claude Monet (2005). “Monet”, Rizzoli International Publications

• 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

  Frustration, Thinking, Long

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

• I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.

  Claude Monet

  Order, Succeed, Painting

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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