Interpretar a natureza

Pintura de Georges-Pierre Seurat, View of Fort Samson (1885, Museu do Hermitage, São Petersburgo).

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«(…) Thus it happens that these masters have interpreted nature, and not given a literal translation. This interpretation is precisely what makes the personality of each of them. Without this individual point of view there can be no really original work».
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Carolus-Duran (1886),

citado por Nuno Saldanha (2006).