Charles BaudelaireI should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
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Claude Monet once said, “I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.” He was probably referring to the cliché of nature painting in its purest form, but his meaning is broader than that. He was suggesting that his paintings, which are so full of life and movement, are not natural. They are artificial.
They are made by human hands, not by nature. We may think that Monet was being overly dramatic here, but he was right. Nature can paint some breathtaking colors—but it doesn’t have the imagination to paint them in a way that seems natural.
It has to be painted by humans.
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