An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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