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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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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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Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
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True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
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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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The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.
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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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Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.
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I invent nothing, I rediscover.
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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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He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.
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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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