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I admit, that the commonplace man can never, by copying, produce a masterpiece; he notes every detail but he does not really see - the artist penetrates below the surface into the very heart of nature; for him everything is beautiful because beauty in art consists of character.

— Auguste Rodin

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I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

One can never do anything so beautiful as nature.

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

I am not a rhetorician, but a man of action.

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

Heads and Tales (1936)

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