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Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.

Pierre Bonnard

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Pierre Bonnard
Age: 79 †
Born: 1867
Born: October 13
Died: 1947
Died: January 23
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