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Van Ruijven: So, have you decided what to do up next, Jan? Have you found inspiration up in that room of yours? Is there another patron in Delft with pockets as deep as mine?
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Vermeer: [Describing his newly arrived Camera Obscura] See this? This is called a lens. Beams of reflected light from that corner pass through it, into the box, so that we can see it here.
Griet: Is it real?
Vermeer: It's an image. A picture made of light.
Griet: Does the box show you what to paint?
Vermeer: It helps.
Claire Johnston
Extended Reading
Girl with a Pearl Earring quotes
