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Auguste Rodin

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

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True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

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There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

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To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

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The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

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I invent nothing, I rediscover.

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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.