Claude Monet Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• 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

• It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water.

  Claude Monet

  Running, Home, Learning

• The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.

  Claude Monet

  Beautiful, Reflection, Water

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

• These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

  Claude Monet

  Reflection, Water, Landscape

• Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.

  Claude Monet

  Water, Insane, Trying

• I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!

  Claude Monet

  Taken, Water, Done

• These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.

  Claude Monet

  Reflection, Water, Age

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

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