The poetry of the fields and forests is inseparable from truth. But the
painter must idealize this truth by making it express some sentiment;
faithfulness of imitation alone would not suffice. The artist, master of
reality, enlightens it with his eyes, transfigures it according to his
heart, and makes it utter what is not in it--sentiment; and that which
it neither possesses nor understands--thought.
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