“Art is no longer a purely visual experience.... it is a work of our intellect triggered by nature.... the imagination again become the queen of our strengths and we liberate our sensitivity.”

— Maurice Denis

Nouvelles théories sur l'art moderne..., 1922

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French painter 1870–1943

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