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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.
Auguste Rodin
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Auguste Rodin
Age: 77 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 12
Died: 1917
Died: November 17
Drawer
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Paris
France
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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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True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
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I invent nothing, I rediscover.
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One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.
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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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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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The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.
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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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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
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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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The more simple we are, the more complete we become.
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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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Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
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Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature
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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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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 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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To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature
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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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