Monet aggressively pruned his garden to paint it perfectly

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Claude Monet is universally famous for his gentle, atmospheric paintings of water lilies, but behind the scenes, he was a total botanical tyrant. He hired six full-time gardeners and demanded they obsessively clean the dust off individual lily pads before he painted them. If a tree branch ruined his artistic composition, he would simply pay a crew to forcefully hack it off.

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