It was as if a veil had been torn suddenly away; I had understood, I had grasped what painting could be.
Claude Monet Quotes
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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| Birth: | 14th November, 1840 |
| Death: | 5th December, 1926 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Painter |
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Claude Monet was born in Paris, France. He was a french painter. He was a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. In 1899 he began painting the water lilies, first in vertical views with a Japanese bridge as a central feature, and later in the series of large-scale paintings that was to occupy him continuously for the next 20 years of his life.
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