"Only those who have experienced the elation and despair which comes from the attempt to express their feelings about vision in oil paint will know that it is impossible to speak with complete impartiality about art."
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Characteristics of French Art' 1931.
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Roger Fry
Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 β 9 September 1936) was an English painter and art critic.
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