Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me. (Samuel F. B. Morse)

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

Samuel F. B. Morse

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