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There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.

Auguste Rodin

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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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The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.
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I invent nothing, I rediscover.
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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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To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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The more simple we are, the more complete we become.
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Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.
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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.
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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.
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I would have to talk for a year to repeat a single on of my works with words.
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I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.
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Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature
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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.
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