"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."
-Auguste Rodin
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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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