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In observing nature the European landscape painter appeared to have forgotten the real colour of things; he scarcely saw more than light and shade. . . . The Japanese did not see nature swathed in mourning . . . it appeared to them as coloured and full of light. . . . Among our landscape painters Claude Monet was the first to have the boldness to go as far as the Japanese in the use of colour.—Théodore Duret, 1880^1(p2)

Look closely at this flower with its petals turned by the wind; is it not Truth itself? . . . And here, near this Hokusai woman, look at this bathing scene: look at the bodies, can you not feel their firmness. . . . These people have taught us a different way of composing, no doubt about it.—Monet, at age 80 years, to Edward, the Duc de Trévise^1-2(p340)

James C. Harris, MD

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