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"Bui Xuan Phai never admires himself, but let himself
lost in thought so that he sometimes incidentally
strays into his own innermost feelings; his self-portraits
and portraits are not mirrors of physiognomies but
those reflecting the electro-cardiograms of inner
emotions; behind the painted surfaces are personal
life stories, vicissitudes of time, stigmas of labour and
sufferings, and joy and happiness, which settle down
like the seal of fate..."
— Nguyễn Quân (original quote in Vietnamese, English translation by Duong Tuong)
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