Saturday, April 25, 2009

Claude Monet - Inspirational Quotes & Beautiful Oil Paintings






(Above)
La Japonaise by Claude Monet
(Below)
Water Lilies (The Clouds) by Claude Monet




























(Above)
Water Lilies by Claude Monet

I have chosen these inspirational art quotes and oil paintings by the famous French Artist Claude Monet Claude Oscar Monet for their sentiment and true beauty. It is wonderful that the words and art of Monet can bring joy and warmth to us even now.
~ The Art Diva of Paintingstogo

- My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.
- I can only draw what I see.
- Everything I have earned has gone into these gardens.
- Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
- It took me time to understand my waterlilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them
- I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.
- It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

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