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The real subject of every painting is light.
Claude Monet
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Claude Monet
Age: 86 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 14
Died: 1926
Died: December 5
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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