From now on whatever the hour represented on the canvas, a supreme accord w1ll be wrought amongst all the parts of the subject: the water, the sky, the clouds, the foliage, reunified by the atmosphere, will form a whole of an irreproachable homogeneity, a grandiose and charming image of natural harmony.


1898 in: Steven Z. Levine, Claude Monet (1994), Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self. p. 93: presented as "account at the time of the reexhibition of the seven Cathedrals in 1898."

Gustave Geffroy Quotes

From now on whatever the hour represented on the canvas, a supreme accord w1ll be wrought amongst all the parts of the subject: the water, the sky,...

From now on whatever the hour represented on the canvas, a supreme accord w1ll be wrought amongst all the parts of the subject: the water, the sky,...

From now on whatever the hour represented on the canvas, a supreme accord w1ll be wrought amongst all the parts of the subject: the water, the sky,...

From now on whatever the hour represented on the canvas, a supreme accord w1ll be wrought amongst all the parts of the subject: the water, the sky,...