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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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Title: Wikiquote: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec

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