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I would advise young artists . . . to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly . . . . If their painting doesn't improve by itself, it means that nothing can be done - and I wouldn't do anything!

Source: Letter to Gustave Geffroy, in Artists on Art: From the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century, ed. Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, 1945.
-- Claude Monet, (Nov 14 1840-1926), French artist; He was an impressionist leader whose painting Impression: Sunrise gave group its name.

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