"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…"

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

"..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…"

"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."