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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.

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.

Nobody Does Good To Men With Impunity.

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

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.