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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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François-Auguste-René Rodin
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Francois A. Rene Rodin
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René François Auguste Rodin
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True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
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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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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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In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.
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Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature
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Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.
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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 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 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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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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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 artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.
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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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