Quotes About Inspiration

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

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint...

Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.

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

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever. Merely think here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape.

Every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all - my head is bursting…

If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!

I want to paint the way a bird sings.

Impression — I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it … and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.

I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.

Water Lilies' is an extension of my life. Without the woter the lilies cannot live, as I am without art.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers

The essence of the motif is the mirror of water, whose appearance alters at every moment.

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

I must have flowers, always and always.

The Seine. I have painted it all my life, at all hours of the day, at all times of the year, from Paris to the sea…Argenteuil, Poissy, Vétheuil, Giverny, Rouen, Le Havre.

I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and I would like to do everything, so I use up and squander lots of color, for there are trials to be made.

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.

La littérature est parfaitement inutile, sa seule utilité est qu'elle aide à vivre.

But right now, I'm going to focus on the beauty of life, not the darkness

It's amazing how just one thing said by just one person in the middle of just one conversation on just one regular day can start a person wondering things she had never wondered before.