Trees in Art, Claude Monet and van Gogh and Other Artists Paintings

For the art and nature lovers. Quotes and paintings for your inspired weekend.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. ~Claude Monet

Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet. 14 November 1840–5 December 1926, was a French painter. He’s a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific painter of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature. Wikipedia.

Here are some of Monet’s great paintings:

Claude Monet. Apple Trees, Vétheuil, 1878.

Claude Monet. Apple Trees, Vétheuil, painting 1878

Trees in art: Weeping Willow, Claude Monet, Painting 1918

Trees in art: Weeping Willow, Claude Monet, 1918

“Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.” ~Claude Monet.

Claude Monet, painting

“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.” ~Claude Monet

Frédéric Bazille, Paysage au bord du Lez, 1870

Frédéric Bazille, Paysage au bord du Lez, 1870

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh, Cypresses, painting 1889