“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...”
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Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.
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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...”
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“For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.”
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“I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this...”
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“I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing.”
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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 ne...”
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“Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails.”
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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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“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...”
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“No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.”
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“People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.”
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“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
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“I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.”
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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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“I am working, but when one has ceased to do seascape, it is the devil afterward - very difficult; it changes at every instant, and here the weather varies several times in the same day.”
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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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“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
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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 trial...”
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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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“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.”
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