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Our group was about to go its separate ways. Whether we liked it or not, it wasn't going to be the same again.
(Old Claude Monet)
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Monet: Please let me write to Hoschede.
Alice: To say what?
Monet: That I love you, that you love me. [...]
Alice: I won't divorce him, Claude! You know that - I'm a catholic.
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| Please don't punish me for not behaving like a husband. I would very much like to behave like a husband.
(Claude Monet to Alice Hoschede)
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| From the train, I had seen this rambling farmhouse and we were lucky. The rent was low enough that even we could afford it! (Old Claude Monet on Giverny)
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| Etretat is becoming more and more amazing; it's at its best now, the beach with all these fine boats, it's superb and I rage at my inability to express it all better. (Letter from Claude Monet to Alice Hoschede, 20th October, 1885).
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As the light changed on the haystacks, the whole subject was transformed. And the light kept changing through the day, through different days. And I only worked on each canvas in its light, seizing just the right moment at a stroke, or that moment will be lost. (Old Claude Monet)
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All my life, I have travelled, looking for something. I thought that I would find it seeing different things, but it's here ... it's here. It's in seeing the same things every day.
(Young Claude Monet to Alice Hoschede)
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| I set up my easel in front of this body of water that contains in it all the elements of a universe, changing constantly under our very eyes. It's become an obsession!
(Old Claude Monet to Francois Thiebault-Sisson)
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Monet has outlived them all. Now, he is a hero, one of the most successful painters that ever lived - the father of Impressionism. We have his paintings and his garden - the fleeting moments, an impression of life.
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