In honor of the Impressionist master’s 176th birthday, we selected 10 insightful quotes from the revolutionary artist. Claude Monet. Impression, soleil levant (1874).

Later in 1903, The Art Institute became the first American museum to purchase work by Monet which only furthered donations and acquisitions. The mutually beneficial, if partially reluctant, ...

Now the originals can be seen again, until Feb. 25, in “Claude Monet’s Japanese Prints” at Paris’ Marmottan Monet Museum. As a collector, Monet had a sharp eye.