“The streets of Paris, with their shops of old furniture, etchings, and works of art, are a veritable museum, far less tiring than official museums, and from which one imbibes just as much as one can.”

—  Auguste Rodin

Source: Rodin : the man and his art, with leaves from his notebook, 1917, p. 105

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