From a letter dated May 4, 1890:
“They say that in painting one should look for nothing more and hope for nothing more than a good picture and a good talk and a good dinner as the height f happiness, and ignore the less brilliant digressions. That may well be true, so why shouldn’t one seize the hour, particularly if in so doing one steals a march on one’s illness?”
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