Claude Monet

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Biography : French painter.
Born: 1840 - Died: 1926
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

France

Claude Monet - Quotes

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

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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me.
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universe

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me.

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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People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

The subject is of secondary importance to me; I want to represent what lives between the object and me.
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It seems to me, when I see nature, that I see it ready made, completely written — but then, try to do it!
Claude Monet

nature

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet

My life has been nothing but a failure.
Claude Monet

life

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