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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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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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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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The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.
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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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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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True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
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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.
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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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