Top 100 Quotes About Monet: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Monet

#1. In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, and Mickey Mantle. He had purchased the most coveted items auctioned by the Mantle family at Madison Square Garden in December 2003.

Jane Leavy

#2. 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

#3. I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action painter. I am not an abstract expressionist. I am not younger or older. I will not take my hat off to any other artist living or dead in all the world. I know this.

Milton Resnick

#4. The very name Impressionism is taken from an Atlantic Ocean painting - that of Monet, of sunrise in the harbor of Le Havre, done in 1872.

Simon Winchester

#5. I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing.

Celia Imrie

#6. If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. If I wrote a book and put it out, the comparison to my great-grandfather, the comparison would be hilarious. Every critic, it would be their dream, they'd tear me apart.

Dree Hemingway

#7. The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem'ries, Picasso your dreams.

Robert Breault

#8. I'm the guy who happened to be home the night Kat came to steal a Monet.- Hale

Ally Carter

#9. For Monet, on this occasion, water lilies were the measure of water lilies; and so he painted them.

Aldous Huxley

#10. Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!

Paul Cezanne

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

Fiona Bruce

#12. First you term me pretty ... and then dub me terrifying in the next breath," he said. "I do not know what to make of it."
"Make of it that you are ... pretty terrifying, Sir Broderick Dougray," Monet said, smiling at the warmth of his breath in her hair.

Marcia Lynn McClure

#13. Claude Monet was the incomparable painter of bright daylight...Monet was the painter of light.

Christoph Heinrich

#14. Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

Richard C. Armitage

#15. Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?

Edouard Manet

#16. I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I can't. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

Tom Seaver

#17. 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

#18. Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

Pete Seeger

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside.

Mike Svob

#22. 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

#23. Sure, but don't expect great observations. Mostly I just looked for dirty pictures hidden within the artwork. Did you know Monet put a boob in all his paintings? Apples and Grapes - get it? I mean, come on. The guy was a horn-dog.

Penny Reid

#24. I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.

Maurice Sendak

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

Atticus Poetry

#26. My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best.

Katharine Hepburn

#27. Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

#28. Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability and flux of every moment. 'The Water Lilies' give you a jittery, amorphous sense of a world seen at the speed of light.

Jerry Saltz

#29. 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

#30. I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him. We painters, however, can never reproduce sunlight as it really is. I can only approach the truth of it.

Joaquin Sorolla

#31. Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

Jo Walton

#32. Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.

James Huneker

#33. I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

Francis Bacon

#34. It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads as ours, already streaked with silver threads.

Theophile Gautier

#35. 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

#36. I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.

Claude Monet

#37. I never draw except with brush and paint ...

Claude Monet

#38. Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.

Claude Monet

#39. What could be said about me ... a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.

Claude Monet

#40. I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good.

Claude Monet

#41. It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

Claude Monet

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

Claude Monet

#43. It goes without saying that I will do anything at any price to pull myself out of a situation like this [rejection] so that I can start work immediately on my next Salon picture and ensure that such a thing should not happen again.

Claude Monet

#44. It would be a very bad idea ... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group.

Claude Monet

#45. When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.

Claude Monet

#46. I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same ...

Claude Monet

#47. What I need most of all is color, always, always.

Claude Monet

#48. When I work I forget all the rest.

Claude Monet

#49. I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.

Claude Monet

#50. I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.

Claude Monet

#51. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

#52. Hatred doesn't just hurt the people being hated, it hurts the people housing the hatred

Aja Monet

#53. I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

Claude Monet

#54. One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

Claude Monet

#55. Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad

Claude Monet

#56. The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

Claude Monet

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

Claude Monet

#58. Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.

Claude Monet

#59. I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.

Claude Monet

#60. Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.

Daniella Monet

#61. Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.

Claude Monet

#62. May your hands be an extension of your heart and may you do the work of love with them.

Aja Monet

#63. I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

Claude Monet

#64. Amelia nodded her head, "That makes perfect sense."
"No is doesn't," jeered Otto.
"Yes, it does," sighed Amelia. "Don't you ever remember anything important?"
"Of course, I remember how many Star Trek seasons there were and when the Three Stooges were born!

Monet Polny

#65. I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

Claude Monet

#66. ... 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

#67. I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

Claude Monet

#68. I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

Claude Monet

#69. To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it ...

Claude Monet

#70. I am pleased with the exhibition ... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste ...

Claude Monet

#71. Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room ...

Claude Monet

#72. I hung out with all the guys in my neighborhood when I was little ... I would, like, skateboard and go to skate parks, like, every day and do motor cross, like, every weekend, and I was kind of one of those girls.

Daniella Monet

#73. I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes ... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away ... what a rage I was in!

Claude Monet

#74. I am really close to my family. My cousin is my best friend!

Daniella Monet

#75. I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.

Claude Monet

#76. I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

Claude Monet

#77. One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat] will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I, have felt.

Claude Monet

#78. 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

#79. I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases ...

Claude Monet

#80. Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red ... But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.

Claude Monet

#81. The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

Claude Monet

#82. Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

Claude Monet

#83. My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.

Claude Monet

#84. Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of blue and pink: it's enchanting, it's delicious.

Claude Monet

#85. One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.

Claude Monet

#86. The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

Claude Monet

#87. 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.

Claude Monet

#88. Light is the most important person in the picture.

Claude Monet

#89. My life has been nothing but a failure.

Claude Monet

#90. I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.

Claude Monet

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

Claude Monet

#92. Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.

Claude Monet

#93. I still don't know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.

Claude Monet

#94. I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please; nothing satisfies me ...

Claude Monet