"The Algerians of Fromentin are much more real Arabs than those of his artist colleagues."

"What we've lost - 'I said in more or less these terms' - is the proper interest in and taste for detail. We've been n…"

"..Africa: it's a magic word that lends itselfs to suppositions and sets amateur explorers to dreaming. I want to try …"

"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 harmfu…"

"..an entirely original painter [ Francois Millet ], high-minded and genuinely rustic in nature, who has expressed thi…"

"..the great Dutch school seemed to think of nothing but painting well [characterised by] the total absence of what to…"

"What motive had a Dutch painter in painting a picture? None. And notice that he never asked for one. A peasant with a…"

"The art of painting is only the art of expressing the invisible by the visible. Whether its roads be great or small, …"

"Fromentin was more of a colorist with pen in hand but brush."