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).
