Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

— Claude Monet

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

— Claude Monet

Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.

— Claude Monet

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

— Claude Monet

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

— Claude Monet

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

— Claude Monet

I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

— Claude Monet

I must have flowers, always and always.

— Claude Monet

I must have flowers, always, and always.

— Claude Monet

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers

— Claude Monet