Art Monet Quotes

#1. Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

Claude Monet

#2. Impression - I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it ... and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.

Claude Monet

#3. With glitzy add-ons, the bright, girly dress you bought for daywear becomes fancy enough for evening.

Brad Goreski

#4. I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.

Erwin McManus

#5. Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.

Claude Monet

#6. For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

Claude Monet

#7. The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#8. Art takes time -
Monet grew his gardens
before he painted them.

Atticus Poetry

#9. Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

Claude Monet

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

Claude Monet

#11. If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity.

Deepak Chopra

#12. My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact.

Patricia Polacco

#13. I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

Baz Luhrmann

#14. I love Monet: his 'Water Lilies' would look great on my wall. But would I prefer to see money helping kids get better from cancer rather than spending it on a work of art for my own personal indulgence? Yes, I probably would.

Bonnie Langford

#15. Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.

Patrick Wilson

#16. I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Claude Monet

#17. What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere.

Andre Aciman

#18. The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to be turned out of this dear little house where I led a simple life and was able to work so well. I do not know what will become of us ...

Claude Monet

#19. When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business ... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

Otis Redding

#20. By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.

Claude Monet

#21. Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

William Laud

#22. In the art world, Monet means money.

Fiona Bruce

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

Claude Monet

#24. My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

Claude Monet

#25. What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

Claude Monet

#26. One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what's been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of the personal for myself.

Jessica Valenti

#27. ... Every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all - my head is bursting ...

Claude Monet

#28. Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

Claude Monet

#29. The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, Millet and others, I understood why my alliance with Russia and Russian art did not take root.

Marc Chagall