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I am quite incapable of doing them [making landscapes], even the shadow. My trees look like spinach and my sea like heaven knows what.. ..[the Mediterranean landscape was] the devil to paint, precisely because it is so beautiful.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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Notes from Wikiquote

young Lautrec comments his own paintings of the landscape, when he was c. 15 years old.

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