Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment. - Claude Monet
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence. - Claude Monet
…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
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
It is better to have done something than to have been someone. - Claude Monet
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare. - Claude Monet
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece - Claude Monet