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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
Graphic Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
Paris
France
Rodin
François-Auguste-René Rodin
François Auguste Rodin
Francois A. Rene Rodin
Rodan
Ogi︠u︡st Roden
François Auguste René Rodin
René François Auguste Rodin
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rodin auguste
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Lo-tan
Roden Rone Fransua Ogyust
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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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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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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.
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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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True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
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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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The artist has only to trust his eyes.
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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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He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real 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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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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I would have to talk for a year to repeat a single on of my works with words.
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The more simple we are, the more complete we become.
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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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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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My drawings are the result of my sculpture.
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The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
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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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Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature
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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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