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Techniques vary, art stays the same it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

Claude Monet

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Claude Monet
Age: 86 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 14
Died: 1926
Died: December 5
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Paris
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength it is the only strength I have.
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I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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It goes without saying that I will do anything at any price to pull myself out of a situation like this [rejection] so that I can start work immediately on my next Salon picture and ensure that such a thing should not happen again.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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