Claude Monet

French · 1840–1926

Founder of French Impressionism whose plein-air landscapes and water lily series revolutionized the perception of light and color in painting.

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“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”

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“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.”

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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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