Medardo Rosso Quotes

• What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must... communicate whatever struck his sensibility, so that a person beholding his work may experience in its entirety the emotion felt by the artist while he observed nature.

  Medardo Rosso

  Art, May, Emotion

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• When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.

  Medardo Rosso

  People, Body, Lines

  Quoted in Edmond Claris De l'impressionisme en sculpture, 'Medardo Rosso' (1902).

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• What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . .

  Medardo Rosso

  Artist, Humanity, Process

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