Sunday, May 07, 2006

Watching "The Impressionists" on BBC1

"Hello there, Monet! Lend us 20 francs, there's a good chap!"
"Ah Manet, no can do. Poor Degas and I are both broke!"
"Poor Degas? Pah! I despise Degas!"
"They just don't understand us, Claude. It's not about painting a seascape; it's about capturing the impression of the seascape on the subject"
"The impression? Why, that makes us . . . impressionists!"
"It'll never catch on, y'know."

It's like watching a Monty Python episode. Hysterical!

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