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“These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession. It is beyond my strength as an old man, and yet I want to render what I feel.”
— Claude Monet, letter to his friend Gustave Geffroy, August 1908
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Margaux Dubois · Jun 2026
I grew up near Giverny and the ponds are still exactly this color in late June. He was not exaggerating — the light there really does dissolve everything.
Rebecca Stein · Jun 2026
You grew up near Giverny?? I made the pilgrimage two summers ago and cried at the Japanese bridge like a complete tourist. No regrets.
Douglas Finch · Jun 2026
No horizon, no sky, no bank. Just water. He quietly removed the ground you stand on and nobody complained.
jim zaslaw · Jul 2026
I fell in love with the water lilies while seeing them in real life at the Monet Museum in Paris.
