Rodin Quotes

• Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

  Camille Claudel

  Paris, Parent, Committed

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• Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.

  Camille Claudel

  Italian, Night, Men

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• You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

  Roger Vadim

  Sculpture, Ugly, Film

  "Roger Vadim dies". The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2000.

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• Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  August, World, Made

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• I always have SK-II face masks in the fridge - they are excellent especially if you've been on a plane and your skin is puffy. I also love Rodin face oil with jasmine - it's delicious and gives you a real glow. I always use Chanel eye cream. I go to have my eyebrows waxed and lashes tinted, and then I always curl my eyelashes.

  Cat Deeley

  Real, Eye, Oil

  "Cat Deeley: Water babe! The presenter shares her beauty secrets on the set of an amazing underwater photoshoot". Interview with Toni Jones, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 27, 2012.

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• Rodin picks a mushroom delighted, and shows it to Madame Rodin... "Look," he says excitedly, "and that takes but a single night! In one night all these are made, all these lamellas. That is good work."

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Night, Mushrooms, Looks

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• Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop, to name a few. Twain wrote 'Tom Sawyer' at 41 and bettered it with 'Huckleberry Finn' at 50; Wright completed Fallingwater at 72 and worked on the Guggenheim Museum until his death at 91.

  David Galenson

  Museums, Names, Frost

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• I walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't do that.' I didn't know how he did it. I've never seen anything like that. It's like this feat, this Rodin sculpture to me. It's like hearing an opera singer and the tears go down your face because it's not human what they're doing. It's like sounds of heaven.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Wife, Heaven, Tears

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• I use Rodin Luxury Face Oil at night, and it keeps my skin hydrated and refreshed for the day - not tired from all the makeup.

  Erin Heatherton

  Tired, Makeup, Night

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• The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly Just think of Rodin, how he dealt with people of all ages. I have the feeling that I'm alive, I have a body I can make it extremely interesting. That keeps me alive and vital. It's a kind of process of energizing myself by my belief that the classical tradition of art that we've inherited from the Greeks is a load of bullshit.

  John Coplans

  Art, Thinking, Views

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• Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.

  Camille Paglia

  Philosophical, Thinking, Hands

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Tree, Study, Masters

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• While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies.

  Paul Claudel

  Lying, Maturity, People

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• I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Photographer, Thinker

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• I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of roses. Pink roses. Suddenly I felt the most powerful feeling of peace, and I had the thought that death, if it means an absorption into a reality like the one that was before me, might be all right.

  Irving Howe

  Powerful, Mean, Reality

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