"As it's only the strength of character that makes the beauty of art, it often happens that the more a being is ugly in nature, it is more beautiful in art. There is nothing ugly in art that is without character, ie which offers no outer or inner truth. Is ugly in art what is false, what is artificial, what seeks to be pretty or beautiful instead of being expressive, what is insipid without reason, that arches and rears without cause, all that is soulless and without truth, everything which is just a parade of beauty or grace, everything that lies. "
Auguste Rodin
Pencils on Canson Lavis Studio / 40 x 50 cm / 2010