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... Rouault could not be satisfied with catching only a moment of visual truth. He sought the real significance of everything. Reality, his kind of reality, led to the very depths of being. And that is as it had to be. That was the justification of his existence, his essential purpose......He was the kind who, in order to express himself through line and color, is obliged to close his eyes, to replace sight by vision.