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.

  Auguste Rodin

  Flower, Character, Eye

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

  Auguste Rodin

  Photography, Mirrors, Soul

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

  Auguste Rodin

  Simple, Simplicity

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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.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Creativity, Fire

  Southwestern Art Vol. 6, p. 20, 1977.

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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!

  Auguste Rodin

  Artist, Men, Moved

  "The Origins of Creativity". Book by Karl H. Pfenninger, ‎Valerie R. Shubik, ‎Bruce Adolphe (p. 50), 2001.

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

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Leadership, Summer

  "Heads and Tales". Book by Malvina Hoffman, p. 47, 1936.

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

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Block, Needed

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

  Auguste Rodin

  Love, Marriage, Passion

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

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Soul, Spirit

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• Patience is also a form of action.

  Auguste Rodin

  Patience, Work, Excellence

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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.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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

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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.

  Auguste Rodin

  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.

  Auguste Rodin

  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.

  Auguste Rodin

  Artist, People, Soul

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• In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Sacred, Art Is

  "The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin". Book by Albert Edward Elsen, p. 131, July 1, 1985.

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• Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.

  Auguste Rodin

  Photography, Inspire, Feelings

  Albert Edward Elsen, Auguste Rodin (1980). “In Rodin's studio: a photographic record of sculpture in the making”, Cornell Univ Pr

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• I invent nothing, I rediscover.

  Auguste Rodin

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  "Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works". Book by Camille Mauclair (p. 60-61), 1905.

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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.

  Auguste Rodin

  Nature, Eye, Giving

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

  Auguste Rodin

  Thinking, People, Important

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• What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Art Is, Ugliness

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so beautiful. The ignorant and indifferent destroy beautiful things merely by looking at the marble. Things that remake the soul of him who understands them.

  Auguste Rodin

  Beautiful, Dream, Real

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• Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.

  Auguste Rodin

  Atmosphere, Kind, Mystery

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.81, 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.

  Auguste Rodin

  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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• Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Sculpture, Holes

  "Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works". Book by Auguste Rodin, p. 61-63, 1905.

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• What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

  Auguste Rodin

  Eye, Hands, Drawing

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