Claude Monet Quotations | Page 2

My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I established myself here, there was nothing but a farmhouse and a poor orchard...I bought the house and little by little I enlarged and organized it...I dug, planted weeded, myself; in the evenings the children watered.

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...

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

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.

I insist upon 'doing it alone'... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.

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.

I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.