Claude Monet

It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that she again become calm. ”

I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and I would like to do everything, so I use up and squander lots of color, for there are trials to be made. ”

I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm. ”

I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions. ”

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. ”

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. ”

My life has been nothing but a failure. ”

I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting. ”

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

Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time. ”