Auguste Rodin Quotes - Page 3

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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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• To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.

  Auguste Rodin

  Beauty, Admiration, Worship

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• Black is the queen of colours.

  Auguste Rodin

  Queens, Black, Colour

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• How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!

  Auguste Rodin

  Rejection, Helping, Painful

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• There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.

  Auguste Rodin

  Spiritual, Art, Powerful

  Auguste Rodin, Paul Gsell (1984). “Art: Conversations with Paul Gsell”, p.109, Univ of California Press

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• The artist has only to trust his eyes.

  Auguste Rodin

  Eye, Artist, His Eyes

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

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• The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

  Auguste Rodin

  Men, Color, Drawing

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended.

  Auguste Rodin

  Artist, Accomplishment, Movement

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

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• Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Looks, Different

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• Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

  Auguste Rodin

  Taken, Body, Torso

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• If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy.

  Auguste Rodin

  Spiritual, Technique, Energy

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

  Auguste Rodin

  Drawing, Sculpture, Results

  Auguste Rodin (2005). “Auguste Rodin: Images of Desire, Erotic Watercolors and Cut-outs”, Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh

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• I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

  Auguste Rodin

  Photography, Art, Believe

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• Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

  Auguste Rodin

  Documents

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• As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.

  Auguste Rodin

  Light, Play, Shadow

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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