Claude Monet Quotes
Everything changes, even stone.
Monet, Claude. Quoted in Tucker, Paul Hayes. Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings. Museum of Fine Arts, 1989.
See Heraclitus {436440} for the ancient Greek exposition of this idea.
Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter, 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. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first Salon des Refusés (exhibition of rejects) mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.