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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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François-Auguste-René Rodin
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Francois A. Rene Rodin
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François Auguste René Rodin
René François Auguste Rodin
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Character
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Truth

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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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The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.
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True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
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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 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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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
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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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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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Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
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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.
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An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.
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There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.
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Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the studio by studying the model, everywhere except in the schools.
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The more simple we are, the more complete we become.
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