| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 40177 |
| QUOTATION: | Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Claude Monet (1840–1926), French painter. Quoted in Claude Monet: Les Nymphéas, ch. 2 (1926).
Remark to Georges Clemenceau. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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