The Awakened Eye: Claude Monet

Claude Monet, Water Lilies [Nymphéas] (c. 1920)
Oil on canvas; triptych, each section 200 x 425 cm
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund
 

These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession.
It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right,
since its appearance changes at any moment.

You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color.
It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible.
It's terrible how the light runs out. Color, any color, lasts a second, sometimes 3 or 4 minutes at most...

When you go out to paint try to forget what object you have before you
- a tree, a house, a field or whatever.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
~ all quotes Claude Monet

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