Auguste Rodin Quotes

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• In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling.

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  Flower, Character, Eye

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  The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

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  Art, Creativity, Fire

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• The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

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  Artist, Men, Moved

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• The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

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  Photography, Mirrors, Soul

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• The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

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  Art, Block, Needed

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• The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

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  Simple, Simplicity

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• Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Summer

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• Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

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  Art, Soul, Spirit

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• Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the studio by studying the model, everywhere except in the schools.

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  School, Clouds, Tree

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• Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

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  Work, Littles, Born

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• The artist enriches the soul of humanity.
  The artist delights people with
  a thousand different shades of feeling.

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  Artist, People, Soul

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• Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

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  Love, Marriage, Passion

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• Patience is also a form of action.

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  Patience, Work, Excellence

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• The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

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  Art, Principles, Methodology

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

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  Nature, Eye, Giving

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• Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

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  Beauty, Men, People

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• People say I think too much about women, yet, after all what is there more important to think about?

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  Thinking, People, Important

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• It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop

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  Photography, Lying, Artist

  Auguste Rodin, Paul Gsell (1983). “Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

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  Moon, Shine On, Sea

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• An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.

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  Art, Names, Should

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul.

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  Photography, Character, Artist

  Auguste Rodin, Paul Gsell (1983). “Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

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  Inspiring, Flower, Artist

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• I invent nothing, I rediscover.

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  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

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  Fighting, Age, Spirit

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