Claude Monet
Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude Monetwas a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth14 November 1840
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
I would advise young artists . . . to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly . . . . If their painting doesn't improve by itself, it means that nothing can be done - and I wouldn't do anything!
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to be turned out of this dear little house where I led a simple life and was able to work so well. I do not know what will become of us...
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece