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

— Jules Dupré

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Together, Dupré and Theodore Rousseau struggled in vain for five months of 1844 with the constant fathomless azure blue of the southern sky

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It will be hard to fill the place of the painter [ Corot ]; it will be impossible to fill the place of the man.

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

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.

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