Oh Claude, he's a clever one

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
–Claude Monet

"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."
–Claude Monet

"No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition."
–Claude Monet

Dioramas at AMNH New York

Prepared to be blown away. If you're a landscape painter, you cannot miss the Dioramas at the Museum of Natural History. As I continued through the exhibit, I kept thinking, "this is insane, these are masterpieces."

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dioramas/artists/painters.php