• At Paris Diaz had sold three drawings of his friend Millet for sixty francs and gave the money, but Millet stayed still thoughtful, for he has to think of the morrow.
Patience ! They will come to it gradually ! Rousseau has sold a landscape for five hundred francs; for my part, I have sold a view of Fontainebleau for seventy-five francs. And I am commissioned to ask you for companion sketches to your drawings. And this time, instead of twenty francs, they are to pay you twenty-five! (Millet replied resignedly: 'If I could only sell two drawings a week at that price all would go right!'
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Patience ! They will come to it gradually ! Rousseau has sold a landscape for five hundred francs; for my part, I have sold a view of Fontainebleau for seventy-five francs. And I am commissioned to ask you for companion sketches to your drawings. And this time, instead of twenty francs, they are to pay you twenty-five! (Millet replied resignedly: 'If I could only sell two drawings a week at that price all would go right!'" in the context of "Diaz to Millet, c. 1845; as quoted by Albert Wolff, 1886, in Notes upon certain masters of the XIX century, - printed not published MDCCCLXXXVI (1886), The Art Age Press, 400 N.Y. (written after the exhibition 'Cent Chefs-d'Oeuvres: the Choice of the French Private Galleries', Petit, Paris / Baschet, New York, 1883, p. 20
• At Paris Diaz had sold three drawings of his friend Millet for sixty francs and gave the money, but Millet stayed still thoughtful, for he has to think of the morrow." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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