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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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Sculptor
Paris
France
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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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Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.
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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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I invent nothing, I rediscover.
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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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He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.
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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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Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.
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I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass
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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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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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I would have to talk for a year to repeat a single on of my works with words.
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To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature
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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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If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy.
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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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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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One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
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