Claude Monet Quotes

"Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks." - Claude Monet

Claude Monet Quotes

"I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one." - Claude Monet

Claude Monet Quotes

"When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever... merely think here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own naive impression of the scene before you." - Claude Monet

Claude Monet Quotes

"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." - Claude Monet