Claude Monet Quote

I felt the need, in order to widen my field of observation and to refresh my vision in front of new sights, to take myself away for a while from the area where I was living, and to make some trips lasting several weeks in Normandy, Brittany and elsewhere...

Claude Monet in letter to François Thiébault-Sisson (1856-1936); As quoted in: Howard F. Isham (2004) Image of the Sea: Oceanic Consciousness in the Romantic Century. p. 336 : About his 1880s travels

I felt the need, in order to widen my field of observation and to refresh my vision in front of new sights, to take myself away for a while from the...

I felt the need, in order to widen my field of observation and to refresh my vision in front of new sights, to take myself away for a while from the...

I felt the need, in order to widen my field of observation and to refresh my vision in front of new sights, to take myself away for a while from the...

I felt the need, in order to widen my field of observation and to refresh my vision in front of new sights, to take myself away for a while from the...