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being a painter Quotes

Three of the best book quotes about being a painter
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“Jess’ grandfather is acting very strangely. He has always been grumpy and irritable--that’s no different from usual. He has always been a painter, too, obsessed with finishing a painting he’s started and especially nasty to those around him until he does manage to find the inspiration to finish it.”
Tim Bowler
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River Boy
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Jess' grandfather
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nasty
management
youth book
grandfather granddaughter relationship
being a painter
obsessed
to those around him
find the inspiration
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A slight treatment of a boy’s reaction when an older friend, a painter, commits suicide. His friend had lived upstairs, where Claudio had visited him almost every day.
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Linnea has visited Claude Monet’s garden! In Paris, she got to see many of his actual paintings. Now she understands what it means for a painter to be called an Impressionist.

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