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I will do water - beautiful, blue water.

~Claude Monet

Topics: Beautiful Blue Water Will

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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.

~Claude Monet

Topics: Beautiful Beautiful Day Bit Day Finally Here Just Like Me Moment Need Several Stopping Sun Superb Tide Up Without Worked

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I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no.

~Claude Monet

Topics: Draw Had Never Oneself Paint Room Shutting Studio Understand Up Yes

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I wear myself out and struggle with the sun. And what a sun here! It would be necessary to paint here with gold and gemstones. It is wonderful.

~Claude Monet

Topics: Gold Here Myself Necessary Out Paint Struggle Sun Wear Wonderful Would

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I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

~Claude Monet

Topics: Alone Always Better Impressions My Own Own Worked

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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 need two hands and hundreds of canvases.

~Claude Monet

Topics: Am Amazing Beach Becoming Boats Enraged Fine Hands Hundreds Moment More More And More Need Now Real Rendering Skillful Superb Two Would I Am

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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.

~Claude Monet

Topics: Been Born Definitely Evil Inn Just Naked Out Star Staying Thrown Where Worm

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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

~Claude Monet

Topics: Become Flowers Having Owe Painter Perhaps

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It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that she again become calm.

~Claude Monet

Topics: Again Become Calm Extraordinary Possible Sea See She Spectacle Whether Wonders

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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 there are more complete, more picturelike, and consequently easier to execute.

~Claude Monet

Topics: Admirable Apart Beautiful Certainly Coast Complete Consequently Easier Entire Execute Exotic Grand Here Lines More Most Most Beautiful Mountain Sea Spot Vegetation

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Artist

Born: November 14th, 1840

Died: December 5th, 1926

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