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..that zone of consciousness through which all artists travel mentally, before ever approaching the easel.

— Eugène Fromentin

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..the great Dutch school seemed to think of nothing but painting well [characterised by] the total absence of what today we call 'a subject'.

The things I haven't seen with my own eyes are for me unknown.

Interpreting the Orient through the arts would destroy it, the artistic exploitation might eventually prove as harmful as military or political adventurism.

..Africa: it's a magic word that lends itselfs to suppositions and sets amateur explorers to dreaming. I want to try to be 'at home' on this bit of foreign [Arab] soil.

The art of painting is only the art of expressing the invisible by the visible. Whether its roads be great or small, they are sown with problems which it is permitted to sound for one's self as truth, but which it is well to leave in their darkness as mysteries.

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