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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.

The Only Principle In Art Is To Copy What You See. Dealers In Aesthetics To The Contrary, Every Other Method Is Fatal.

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.

The Sculptor Represents The Transition From One Pose To Another He Indicates How Insensibly The First Glides Into The Second. In His Work We Still See A Part Of What Was And We Discover A Part Of What Is To Be.

Sculpture Is The Art Of The Hole And The Lump.