Claude Monet

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

"People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love."

"My life has been nothing but a failure."

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."

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