This rough stroke of the brush, which offends my eye at close range, completes the effect and gives relief to the whole picture.

Efface one and you efface the other.

Originality is made up of such things.

Genius is necessarily uneven.

There are no high mountains without deep ravines.
Fill up the valley with the mountain and you will have nothing but a steppe, a plateau, the plain of Les Sablons instead of the Alps, swallows and not eagles.
We must also take into account the weather, the climate, the local influences.