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Claude Monet was a French painter known for his Impressionist style. His works are renowned for capturing the play of light and color, particularly in landscapes, with a focus on water and light effects. Monet's paintings have had a profound impact on the development of modern art.

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“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

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Book:Monet at Giverny

Source: Monet at Giverny

“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”

Source: Monet: a retrospective

“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece”

Art Beautiful Garden Gardening Masterpiece Inspirational Gardening

Author:Claude Monet

“My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.”

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“What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.”

Men Wells Said Matter Courses Painting Flower Garden

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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.”

Needs Heart Forever Flower My Heart Garden

Author:Claude Monet

“The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.”

Light Minutes Garden Atmosphere

Author:Claude Monet

“My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I established myself here, there was nothing but a farmhouse and a poor orchard...I bought the house and little by little I enlarged and organized it...I dug, planted weeded, myself; in the evenings the children watered.”

Years Children Littles House Poor Proud Years Ago Garden Deny Evening Organized Forty Pursued Orchard

Book:Monet at Giverny

Source: Monet at Giverny

“Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.”

Made Stills Used Red Garden Blue Green Appearance Doctrine Used To Be Officials Brown Chocolate Salons Impressionism Peppermint

Author:Claude Monet

“Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

Youth Flower Garden Unhappy Painter Gardening Flower Garden

Author:Claude Monet

“What I need most of all is color, always, always.”

Needs Color Garden

Author:Claude Monet

About the Author

Born: November 14, 1840
Died: December 5, 1926
Known for: Painter
Quotes: 169

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Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, LettersRelated source material

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Monet's cathedral: Rouen 1892-1894Related source material

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Monet: a retrospectiveRelated source material

Monet at Vétheuil and on the Norman Coast, 1878-1883Related source material

Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the SelfRelated source material

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