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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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Auguste Rodin
Age: 77 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 12
Died: 1917
Died: November 17
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
Paris
France
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Francois A. Rene Rodin
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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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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!
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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.
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There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
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