“Of course, there is drawing in art as there is style in literature. Style that is mannered, that strains after effect, is bad. No style is good except that which effaces itself in order to concentrate all the attention of the reader upon the subject treated, upon the emotion rendered.”

—  Auguste Rodin

Source: Art, 1912, Ch. V. Drawing and Color, p. 96

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