Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. – Claude Monet
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. – Claude Monet

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. – Claude Monet
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. – Claude Monet
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. – Claude Monet
No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obamas story. But since the Inauguration, weve seen only the presidents present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle. – Dee Dee Myers