I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift a

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. – Paul Cezanne

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