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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.

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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He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.
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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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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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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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I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass
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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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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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Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature
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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 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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Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.
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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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How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!
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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 human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.
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One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.
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If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy.
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