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The artist is the confidant o...

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

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The work of art is already wi...

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

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I have unbounded admiration f...

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.

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There is no need to create. G...

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

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The body always expresses the...

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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If the artist only reproduces...

If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul.

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Where shall we begin? There i...

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

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Black is the queen of colours...

Black is the queen of colours.

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The nude alone is well dresse...

The nude alone is well dressed

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What is drawing? Not once in ...

What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

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How painful it is to find tha...

How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!

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The artist has only to trust ...

The artist has only to trust his eyes.

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A mediocre man copying nature...

A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each detail minutely, the result will be flat and without character... the artist on the contrary, sees; that is to say, his eye, grafted on his heart, reads deeply into the bosom of nature.

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I grant you that the artist d...

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.

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Mere exactitude, of which pho...

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

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In short, Beauty is everywher...

In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling.

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There is nothing ugly in art ...

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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The main thing is to be moved...

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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In front of the model I work ...

In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it; it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me.

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If the artist succeeds in pro...

If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended.

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