"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."
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.