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“To have that under one's eyes and not paint it is stupid.”

“It will be hard to fill the place of the painter ; it will be impossible to fill the place of the man.”

“You think then, that I know my profession? Why, my poor fellow; if I had nothing more to find out and to learn I could not paint any longer.”

“What man touches, he can become master of, but to paint that sky without clouds, that well of light, is as hopeless a task as it would be to sound its depths.”

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