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

- Claude Monet

My life has been nothing but a failure.

- Claude Monet

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

- Claude Monet

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

- Claude Monet

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

- Claude Monet

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

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

- Claude Monet