“I have too often contented myself with being a hasty improviser: I have spent too much time exploring fleeting effects of the sky and sea.”

Quote of Boudin; as cited in Eugene Boudin, L'atelier de la Lumière' http://www.muma-lehavre.fr/en/exhibitions/eugene-boudin-latelier-de-la-lumiere/variations, Museum Muma, Le Havre
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