Claude Monet

Claude Monet http://thinkexist.com/quotation/i_perhaps_owe_having_become_a_painter_to_flowers/201114.html

1) I am not sure that Claude Monet said this. I found various references in English, but curiously only one making sense in French, and it could have been translated from the English reference. 2) Q1: " I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." Q2: "I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." Source and further information: http://www.quotelucy.com/quotes/claude-monet-quotes.html 3) "Jamais je n'ai eu pareille déveine avec le temps. Jamais trois jours favorables de suite, de sorte que je suis obligé à des transformations continuelles car tout pousse et verdit ! Bref, à force de transformations, je suis la nature sans pouvoir la saisir et puis cette rivière qui baisse, remonte, un jour verte, puis jaune" Source and further information: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/joconde_fr?ACTION=RETROUVER&FIELD_98=APTN&VALUE_98=%20SENN%20Olivier&NUMBER=11&GRP=0&REQ=((SENN%20Olivier)%20:APTN%20)&USRNAME=nobody&USRPWD=4$%2534P&SPEC=1&SYN=1&IMLY=&MAX1=1&MAX2=1&MAX3=100&DOM=All also here: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipédia:Oracle/semaine_48_2007 Note that this last quote is not compatible with Q2 given before. It confirms the first part, but it contradicts the second part. 4) "-Claude Monet «Je suis la nature sans être en mesure de saisir son, je dois avoir peut-être devenir un peintre de fleurs."" Source and further information: http://omassoud.free.fr/wordpress/?p=275&lang=fr (this sentence does not make sense in French) 5) ""Peut-être , je le dois aux fleurs d'être peintre." -- Claude Monet 1840-1926" un peintre de fleurs."" Source and further information: http://bijou.letord.free.fr/BLT%20en%20fran%E7ais/monet3.htm This is the only French text that would make a sensible translation for this; however, I only found this single occurence. 6) Another contradictory Monet quote: " 'Si je suis devenu peintre, c'est à Eugène Boudin que je le dois' dira Monet" Source and further information: http://apresmidistflo.unblog.fr/files/2007/06/confrenceimpressionnisme.pdf Translation: "I owe having become a painter to Eugène Boudin" (another painter)