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she is.  I have but a few in mind that I feel that way about, must not forget to mention Rodin, Millet, Michael Angelo, [[strikethrough]] etc [[/strikethrough]] and a few others, I at times ask myself if it is nature that I am to represent, why have pictures or representations of her why not go out and just admire, people, sky and earth, then I say art must be some thing else, then after passing thru a state of inventing trying to improve on nature, I finely come back to her, one must go to her keep close to her and get character.  We are impressed by something the joy is so great we do not want to part with it we make a memorandom of it for ourselves and to show to others, or we do a thing in which we try to put all that we have ever felt in life, if we