“Claude Monet was the incomparable painter of bright daylight...Monet was the painter of light.”

“I'm the guy who happened to be home the night Kat came to steal a Monet."- Hale”

“The very name Impressionism is taken from an Atlantic Ocean painting - that of Monet, of sunrise in the harbor of Le Havre, done in 1872.”

“The sky on a clear night is a living, pulsating thing. The stars are like musical notes turned to light, and, like notes, they shimmer and swell and fade and fall. The painters have never captured it—but they never will until some painter teaches his colors to dance.”

“If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity.”

“With the way the light shone on her, she looked spotlighted, as if a painter had rendered her that way, the center of someones world.”