No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
Claude MonetThe only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
Claude MonetWhen you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....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, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.
Claude Monet