Claude Monet
Artist
1840-11-14 – 1926-12-05
Claude Monet was a French painter and a leading founder of Impressionism. He is known for works that study light and atmosphere, including his Water Lilies series. His approach strongly shaped modern painting.
Books by Claude Monet
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Claude Monet at the Time of Giverny
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Quotes by Claude Monet
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers
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I must have flowers, always and always.
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Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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I must have flowers, always and always.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers
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Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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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.
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Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases.
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Finally here is a beautiful day, a superb sun like at Giverny. So I worked without stopping, for the tide at this moment is just as I need it for several motifs. This has bucked me up a bit.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.
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There, the grand lines of mountain and sea are admirable, and apart from the exotic vegetation that is here, Monte Carlo is certainly the most beautiful spot of the entire coast: the motifs there are more complete, more picturelike, and consequently easier to execute.
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My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.
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It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that she again become calm.
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I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.
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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, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.
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