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Your women bathing come from the cow house.

— Narcisse Virgilio Díaz

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Quote of Diaz to Millet, c. 1860's, viewing a Nude painting of Millet; as quoted by Arthur Hoeber in The Barbizon Painters – being the story of the Men of thirty – associate of the National Academy of Design; publishers, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York 1915, p. 17

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At last, here is a new man [ Millet ], who has the knowledge which I would like to have, and movement, color, expression, too, - here is a painter!

You paint stinging-nettles, and I prefer roses.

What does it matter! [poverty], One of these days I shall have carriages and a golden crutch. My brush will win them for me.

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