Auguste Rodin Quotes - Page 2

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• The nude alone is well dressed

  Auguste Rodin

  Well Dressed, Wells

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

  Auguste Rodin

  Moon, Shine On, Sea

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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.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Principles, Methodology

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

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• True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Passion, Men

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• There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Morality, Argument

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

  Auguste Rodin

  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 grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.

  Auguste Rodin

  Artist, Doe, Emotion

  Auguste Rodin, Paul Gsell (1983). “Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it; it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me.

  Auguste Rodin

  Sight, Portraits, Comfort

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• He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.

  Auguste Rodin

  Real, Artist, Discouraged

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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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• A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each detail minutely, the result will be flat and without character... the artist on the contrary, sees; that is to say, his eye, grafted on his heart, reads deeply into the bosom of nature.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Character, Eye

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

  Auguste Rodin

  Fighting, Age, Spirit

  "Rodin freed human spirit". The Des Moines Register, January 7, 2007.

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• To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

  Auguste Rodin

  Beautiful, Book, Eye

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• You must always work.

  Auguste Rodin

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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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• 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.

  Auguste Rodin

  Beauty, Men, People

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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.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspiring, Flower, Artist

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• I would have to talk for a year to repeat a single on of my works with words.

  Auguste Rodin

  Years, Repeats

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• The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.

  Auguste Rodin

  Transition, Firsts, Stills

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.

  Auguste Rodin

  Beauty, Body, Envelopes

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.

  Auguste Rodin

  Children, Flower, Relief

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• I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

  Auguste Rodin

  Witty, Art, Block

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• Nobody does good to men with impunity.

  Auguste Rodin

  Men, Doe, Impunity

  The Nation, Vol. 109, p. 6, 1919.

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