Frasi di Claude Monet
Claude Monet
Data di nascita: 14. Novembre 1840
Data di morte: 5. Dicembre 1926
Claude Oscar Monet è stato un pittore francese, considerato il padre dell'Impressionismo.
Frasi Claude Monet
„Ho dipinto cose impossibili a vedersi, ma si diventa pazzi a fare cose simili.“
Citato in Bellonzi, p. 15
„I must have flowers, always, and always.“
Variante: I must have flowers, always and always.
„.. but what a pity that I did not come here [in Venice] when I was younger and more adventurous.“
Quote in Monet's letter to art-ritic and friend Gustave Geffroy, 1907; as cited in: K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 56
1900 - 1920
„I didn't become one... As long as I can remember I've always been one.“
after Monet's death
Origine: Claude Monet, Charles F. Stuckey (1985) Monet: a retrospective. p. 91
Contesto: Monet answering the question, how he had became an impressionist.
Quote in a letter to , September 1879; as cited in The Private Lives of the Impressionists Sue Roe; Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2006, pp. 202-203; also partly cited in: Jane Kinsman, Michael Pantazzi, National Gallery of Australia. Degas: the uncontested master, National Gallery of Australia, 7 apr. 2009. p. 25
1870 - 1890
Contesto: I am absolutely sickened with and demoralized by this life, I've been leading for so long. When you get to my age, there is nothing more to look forward to. Unhappy we are, unhappy we'll stay. Each day brings its tribulations and each day difficulties arise... So I'm giving up the struggle once and for all, abandoning all hope of success... I hear my friends are preparing another exhibition this year [the Impressionists, in Paris, 1880] but I'm ruling out the possibility of participating in it, as I just don't have anything worth showing.
