Claude Monet Quotes
If only the weather would improve, there'd be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
Monet, Claude. Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters. Edited by Richard Kendall, Macdonald Orbis, 1989.
Responding to reporters queries regarding the administration's policy on dealing with the drought that was causing serious agricultural and economic repercussions:
Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter, 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. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first Salon des Refusés (exhibition of rejects) mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.