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Claude Monet was a French painter known for his Impressionist style. His works are renowned for capturing the play of light and color, particularly in landscapes, with a focus on water and light effects. Monet's paintings have had a profound impact on the development of modern art.

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Famous Claude Monet Quotes

“These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.”

Want Feels Age Water Succeed Reflection Obsession Landscape

Book:Monet

Source: Monet

“It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.”

Way Want Would Be Lying Too Much Asking Sells Selling Starvation Connoisseur Asking Too Much

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how the light runs out. Color, any color, lasts a second, sometimes 3 or 4 minutes at most.”

Want Sometimes Light Running Lasts My Own Minutes Color Terrible Faults Chasing Intangible

Author:Claude Monet

“I do have a dream, a tableau of the bathing place of La Grenouillère, for which I've done some bad pochades (sketches), but it is a dream. Renoir, who have just spent a couple of months here, also wants to paint this subject.”

Want Done Dream Subjects Months Couple Paint Bathing Renoir Tableau

Author:Claude Monet

“I would love to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but I cannot find them the way I want them.”

Way Want Tree Sea Blue Orange Lemons Blue Sea

Book:Monet: Nature Into Art

Source: Monet: Nature Into Art

“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.”

Want Found House Impossible Air Paint Boat Bridges

Book:Monet: Nature Into Art

Source: Monet: Nature Into Art

“I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.”

Want Done Enough Seems Past Painting Masters Criticism Critics Painter Sufficient

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

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

Want Art Alive Subjects Importance

Author:Claude Monet

“I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.”

Want Ends Artist House Impossible Air Objects Paint Finished Boat Bridges Surround

Author:Claude Monet

About the Author

Born: November 14, 1840
Died: December 5, 1926
Known for: Painter
Quotes: 169

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