There is something in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is the essential. You come to Nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)

There is something in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is the essential. You come to Nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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