Quote of the day
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Claude Monet
Born: November 14, 1840
Died: December 5, 1926 (aged 86)
Bio: Oscar-Claude Monet was 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.
Known for:
- Impression, Sunrise (1872)
- Poppies (1873)
- Houses of Parliament
- Women in the Garden (1866)
Claude Monet Quotes