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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. "
Mind
Spirit
Pleasure
" I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. "
Need
Whatever
Art
" I invent nothing, I rediscover. "
Rediscover
Invent
Nothing
" Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight. "
Know
Artist
Look
" Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages. "
Joy
History
People
" Nobody does good to men with impunity. "
Men
Does
Good
" Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. "
Nothing
Time
Waste
" Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump. "
Art
Sculpture
Lump
" 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. "
Flowers
Artist
Nature
" 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. "
Spark
Born
Create
" 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. "
Men
Color
Drawing
" 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. "
Unknown
She
Nature
" 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. "
Eyes
Nature
Beautiful
" To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. "
Never
Artist
Anything
" True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. "
Work
True
Almost
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