Claude Monet Quotes

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

No one can ever create art, even on a piece of paper, as they have envisioned it in their mind.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.

I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art.

I wanted to be a painter.

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

I will be a historical painter.

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.

I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream.

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.