“I dream my picture and afterwards I paint my dream.”

— Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

As translated in Musical Courier Vol. 57, No. 21 (18 November 1908), p. 20; in recent years a nearly identical but ultimately unsourced remark has been attributed to Vincent Van Gogh; the very earliest such attributions yet found date to the 1990s.
As translated in Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning (1918) by Thomas Troward, p. 207
As translated in Gardener's Chronicle of America (1932)
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Original: (fr) Je rêve mon tableau, et plus tard je peindrai mon rêve.

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French landscape painter and printmaker in etching 1796–1875

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