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

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I do not need.

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An artist must possess consummate technique in order to make us forget it.

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What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

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

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I obey nature, I never presume to command her. The first principal in art is to copy what one sees.

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The great difficulty and crowning glory of art is to paint, to draw, to write, naturally and simply.

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It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop

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The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist.

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It is too evident that if the drawing is bad, the color false, the deepest emotion must fail to express itself.

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Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.

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Barye... did not teach us much ; he was always worried and tired when he came, and always told us that it was very good.

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The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.

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There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.

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No sudden inspiration can replace the long years of arduous labor necessary to train the eye to observe, the hand to reproduce.

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Painting, literature, music, are more closely allied than the public usually admit. They are merely different means of expression.

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If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy...

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Admiration, is a joy daily kindled afresh... I talk out of the -fullness of life; it belongs to me in a sense larger than that of ownership.

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If in looking at a picture you have been profoundly moved by it, but have not noticed the color or drawing, you may be sure that they are technically perfect.

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Michelangelo, revealed me to myself, revealed to me the truth of forms. I went to Florence to find what I possessed in Paris and elsewhere, but it is he who taught me this.

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The artist who parades his drawing, the writer who calls attention to his style, is like the farmer who devotes his energies to polishing farm implements and never uses them.

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Were this thoroughly understood, industrial art would be entirely revolutionized — industrial art, that barbarous term, an art which concerns itself with commerce and profit.

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The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

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A critic recently denounced my Victor Hugo, declaring the treatment belonged not to sculpture but to music. He said it reminded him of a symphony by Beethoven. Heaven grant that he spoke the truth!

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The streets of Paris, with their shops of old furniture, etchings, and works of art, are a veritable museum, far less tiring than official museums, and from which one imbibes just as much as one can.

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