“I was certain that they [ Poussin's paintings which Marquet copied frequently in the 1880's] would never bore me.”

—  Albert Marquet

as quoted by Mikhail Guerman, in Albert Marquet – The Paradox of Time, Parkstone Aurora Publishers, Bournemouth England, 1995, p. 11

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