WATER LILIES NO.2 BY MONET

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Monet is quoted to have said: "the richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. [...] Perhaps my originality boils down to my capacity as a hypersensitive receptor, and to the expediency of a shorthand by means of which I project onto a canvas, as if onto a screen, impressions registered on my retina."