Quotes by Claude Monet

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

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

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