Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.

Blaise Pascal
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The words of painter Michelangelo are the following: “Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.” The artist depends on nature to get his work done, but nature doesn’t depend on the artist to get its work done.

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