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Quote by Auguste Rodin
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I dont need. - Au

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I dont need. – Auguste Rodin

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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. – Auguste Rodin

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Flowers
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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. – Auguste Rodin

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Art
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To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. – Robert Mapplethorpe

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Art

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and youll find it. Its there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

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Art

We have art in order not to die of the truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Art

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And were an epitaph to be my story Id have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lovers quarrel with the world. – Robert Frost

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A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain — then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system? – Robert A. Heinlein

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The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power. – Colin Powell

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Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I dont. I dont want you to feel sorry for me. – Judith Moore

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