Monet Quotes

• The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, Millet and others, I understood why my alliance with Russia and Russian art did not take root.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Russia, Roots

  "From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.

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• Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!

  Paul Cezanne

  Eye

  Quoted in Douglas Cooper, Claude Monet: An Exhibition of Paintings (1957)

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• Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

  Pete Seeger

  Teaching, Light, Sound

  "How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger". Book by David King Dunaway, 1981.

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• I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: "Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar."

  Baz Luhrmann

  Art, Dark, Want

  "Portrait of the artist: Baz Luhrmann, director". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2010.

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• I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.

  Maurice Sendak

  Beautiful, Book, Water Lily

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. November/December 2012.

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• It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads as ours, already streaked with silver threads.

  Theophile Gautier

  May, Aging, Silver

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• Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Painting, Abandoned, Figures

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• I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him. We painters, however, can never reproduce sunlight as it really is. I can only approach the truth of it.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Hate, Light, Darkness

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• I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action painter. I am not an abstract expressionist. I am not younger or older. I will not take my hat off to any other artist living or dead in all the world. I know this.

  Milton Resnick

  Artist, Individuality, Followers

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• For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rubens) it has been used more and more economically for reasons of truth (Millet, Monet, Paul Cézanne) until it will end as the straight line for reasons of Love. This will enable the art of the future to create an international form; a form understandable to all and vital enough to the expression of a general feeling of love in a monumental way. Such is the future.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Art, Expression, Feelings

  "Onafhankelijke bespiegelingen over de kunst" by Theo van Doesburg, De Avondpost Journal, January 23, 1916.

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• Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside.

  Mike Svob

  Simple, Different, Looks

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• Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for me: 'If there's no magic, there's no meaning.' Without magic- or call it wonder, mystery, natural wisdom- nothing has any depth. It's all just surface. You know: what you see is what you get. I honestly believe there's more to everything than that, whether it's a Monet hanging in a gallery or some old vagrant sleeping in an alley.

  Charles de Lint

  Song, Believe, Sleep

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• I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

  Tom Seaver

  Artist, Pitching, Quitting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

  Francis Bacon

  I Like You, Sunset, Glitter

  David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

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• My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best.

  Katharine Hepburn

  People, Looks, Models

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• Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don't make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author's mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, 'Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?'. Monet would be ripping his hair out.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Stupid, Book, Mean

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• Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.

  Patrick Wilson

  Art, Littles, Dots

  Source: collider.com

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• Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop, to name a few. Twain wrote 'Tom Sawyer' at 41 and bettered it with 'Huckleberry Finn' at 50; Wright completed Fallingwater at 72 and worked on the Guggenheim Museum until his death at 91.

  David Galenson

  Museums, Names, Frost

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• Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.

  James Huneker

  Light, Turner, Spaniards

  James Huneker (1910). “Promenades of an Impressionist”

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• I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing.

  Celia Imrie

  Kings, Painting, Series

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• After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land.

  Jerry Saltz

  Years, Land, Gnarly

  New York Volume 43, Issues 14-21, New York Magazine Company, p. 1, 2010.

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• Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability and flux of every moment. 'The Water Lilies' give you a jittery, amorphous sense of a world seen at the speed of light.

  Jerry Saltz

  Light, Water Lily, Giving

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• I'm the guy who happened to be home the night Kat came to steal a Monet."- Hale

  Ally Carter

  Home, Night, Guy

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• If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Artist, Humanity

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• You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything. 'Binky has a nasty habit of shedding all over the living room furniture, you see.' Gregory Wainwright nodded as if he understood perfectly. 'And so we had to get new living room furniture, which, unfortunately, does not go with the Monet.' Kat stood there for a moment, staring into that small window of the world where someone would tire of a Monet simply because it clashed with the couch.

  Ally Carter

  Mother, Doe, World

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