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

• 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

• The real subject of every painting is light.

  Claude Monet

  Real, Light, 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

• What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.

  Claude Monet

  Men, Painting, Pity

• 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

  Giving, Anxiety, Painting

  David Joel, Claude Monet (2002). “Monet at Vétheuil and on the Norman Coast, 1878-1883”, Antique Collectors Club Limited

• I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.

  Claude Monet

  Years, Painting, Achieve

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

• 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

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