“What does it matter! [poverty], One of these days I shall have carriages and a golden crutch. My brush will win them for me.”
Quote of Diaz, c. 1830-34; 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. 139
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