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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.

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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There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
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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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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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I invent nothing, I rediscover.
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I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.
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