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I see less and less....I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up....I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.
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January 1921 to journalist Marcel Pays. Monet in the 20th Century, by Paul Hayes Tucker.

 

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