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I insist upon 'doing it alone'. Much as I enjoyed making the trip there with Renoir as a tourist, I'd find it hard to work there together. I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.. .If he Renoir knew I was about to go, Renoir would doubtless want to join me and that would be equally disastrous for both of us.

— Claude Monet

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Monet is painting then in Northern Italy then, on the edge of the Mediterranean

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I didn't become one.. .As long as I can remember I've always been one.

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