My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting.
