Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Claude Monet


File:Claude Monet 1899 Nadar crop.jpg"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."











— Claude Monet


French Painter


1840 - 1926

















File:Claude Monet - Water Lilies - 1906, Ryerson.jpg
Water Lilies 1906


Why did you become a painter, a writer or a storyteller?  Why did you start playing music and composing songs?  Why do you love to take photographs?  What drives you to be creative?  What is your story?  I began writing poetry when I was a junior in high school and I submitted my early poems as a paper for a social studies seminar.  My English teacher asked me why I had not shown them to her.  At the time I had not made the connection between writing and English class.  I wrote because it was a way to express my ideas on societal problems.  Why are you an artist?  I'd love to hear your story.