14 November
Born in 1840 – Claude Monet, French artist
Above: San Giorgio Maggiore by Twilight, 1908
Monet:
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.