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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 human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.
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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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My drawings are the result of my sculpture.
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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.
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I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass
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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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Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.
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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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The artist has only to trust his eyes.
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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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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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True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
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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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The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
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In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.
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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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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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Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
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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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