Claude Monet

“I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.”

“Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails.”

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

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

“I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.”

“No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.”