"If you see a brush mark or a knife mark, a sponge or a rag, you are not succeeding, " he said.

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Like nearly every work in this show, Manet's real interest was the brush mark of the trousers, tablecloth, lemon zest, vase, coffeepot and smudgy cat.

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Even if broad-brush criticisms of Turkey's foreign policy are overdone, some narrower ones are closer to the mark.

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