. Review of reviews and world's work . I am a hunter of truth and a spy of life. Iobey Nature in everything. The sole principle in. RODIN S MASTERPIECE, tHE THINKER AUGUSTE RODIN, THE FRENCH SCULPTOR Nature—not to observe her sufficiently and to ob-serve her wrongly. In both cases the artists are wellpunished. They devote themselves, by this fail-ure to observe or by this excess of detail, to ro-manticism or to banal realism. They becomedilettanti or photographers, aesthetes or disciplesof Zola. When an artist arranges Nature, whenhe puts her in fine poses, and disposes her so as toplease an i
. Review of reviews and world's work . I am a hunter of truth and a spy of life. Iobey Nature in everything. The sole principle in. RODIN S MASTERPIECE, tHE THINKER AUGUSTE RODIN, THE FRENCH SCULPTOR Nature—not to observe her sufficiently and to ob-serve her wrongly. In both cases the artists are wellpunished. They devote themselves, by this fail-ure to observe or by this excess of detail, to ro-manticism or to banal realism. They becomedilettanti or photographers, aesthetes or disciplesof Zola. When an artist arranges Nature, whenhe puts her in fine poses, and disposes her so as toplease an ignorant public, he creates ugliness be-cause he is afraid of truth. The public does notcare for truth. The taste for reality exists onlywhere there are culture, traditions of social life, thehabit of observing and understanding the spec-tacle things present. All the aristocracies havebeen realists. The mob is imaginative and de-lights in the commonplace romantic. I think withjoy of the grand seigneurs who took pleasure inseeing themselves painted with the greatest V, who allowed Titian to show his supremehar
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