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[I have] done various series of seascapes in different genres, beaches which demonstrated if not great art at least a reasonably faithful reproduction of the people of our age.

— Eugène Boudin

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Boudin's reaction when a art-critic asked him for some biographical details

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I exhaust myself terribly to content the world, and never manage to content myself.

I dare not think of the sun-drenched beaches and the stormy skies, and of the joy of painting them in the sea breezes.

I shall do other things, but I will always be the painter of beaches.

I find my work increasingly more straining, in particular since I have been trying to finish my studies outside.

They [the holiday-visitors near Le Havre] love my little ladies [paintings] on the beach, and some people say that there's a thread of gold to exploit there.

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