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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
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Sculptor
Paris
France
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I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
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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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Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.
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One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.
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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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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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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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The artist has only to trust his eyes.
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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 only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.
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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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If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended.
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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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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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There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
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I invent nothing, I rediscover.
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