"There is nothing actual and real except nature and poetry. (Il n'y a de positif et de réel que la nature et la poésie.)"

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Preface to the "Salon of 1847", p. 382. As cited and translated by Steven Adams in The Barbizon School & The Origins of Impressionism (1994), p. 123.