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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.
Auguste Rodin
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Auguste Rodin
Age: 77 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 12
Died: 1917
Died: November 17
Drawer
Graphic Artist
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Sculptor
Paris
France
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François-Auguste-René Rodin
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To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature
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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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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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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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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
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He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.
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Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature
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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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Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.
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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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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 artist has only to trust his eyes.
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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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Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
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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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The more simple we are, the more complete we become.
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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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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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I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass
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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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