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

- Claude Monet

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

- Claude Monet

Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.

- Claude Monet

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

- Claude Monet

My life has been nothing but a failure.

- Claude Monet

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

- Claude Monet

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

- Claude Monet

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

- Claude Monet

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

- Claude Monet