10 of Monet's Best Quotes

Monet put an incredible amount of feeling and emotion into his paintings, the ethos of which comes together in full force at Beyond Monet: The Immersive Experience. 

His paintings were full of emotion, yes, but what about his words? 

Check out these top quotes from the Father of Impressionism

"Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment."

"My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature"

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

"Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers"

"My king is the sun, my republic is water, my people are flowers and leaves"

"The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration"

"My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece"

"Perhaps I owe having become a painter to flowers"

"Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule"

"It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly"