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..scumbled froth.. ..capable of indicating a mouth, eyes, a nose with a single stroke of the brush, the rest of the face modeled by the perfect accuracy of these indications.

— Berthe Morisot

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There is constant sun, good weather all the time, the ocean like a slab of slate - there is nothing less picturesque than this combination.

My ambition is limited to capturing something transient.

I do not think any man would ever treat a woman as his equal, and it is all I ask because I know my worth.

..the glimpse of the dome of St. Paul's through the forest of yellow masts, the whole thing bathed in a golden haze.

His [ Edouard Manet's] paintings, as they always do, produce the impression of a wild or even a somewhat unripe fruit. I do not in the least dislike them.

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