Claude Monet quotes
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.