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Quotes: Denis Diderot on Painting

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February 13, 2011 12:00 pm

Your characters are mute, so to say; but they make me speak, and that I speak to myself.

Tes personnages sont muets, si tu veux; mais ils font que je me parle, et que je m’entretiens avec moi-meme.

Denis Diderot, Essais sur la peinture (1766)

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