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Tip of the hat to Robert LaFond:

Painters of marines do not represent the sea well, in general. The same approach may be applied to them as to the painters of landscape. They want to show too much science, make portraits of waves, as the landscapists make portraits of trees, of the earth, of mountains, etc. They do not concern themselves enough with the effect on the imagination; the multiplicity of petty details–even true details–turns the mind away from the principal spectacle, which is the immensity or the depth to be rendered by any given art. — Delacroix