"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements."

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Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).

— John Singer Sargent