“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. ” ~~ Claude Monet
Art
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” ~~ Claude Monet
“I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.” ~~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.” ~~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“It’s not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.” ~~ Louise Bourgeois
“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.” ~~ Joseph Joubert
“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.” ~~ F. Scott Fitzgerald