Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad
Claude MonetMy only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
Claude MonetI've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.
Claude Monet