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The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

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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François Auguste René Rodin
René François Auguste Rodin
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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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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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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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The more simple we are, the more complete we become.
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My drawings are the result of my sculpture.
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If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended.
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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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Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.
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To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
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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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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 would have to talk for a year to repeat a single on of my works with words.
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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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I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass
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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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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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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 delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.
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True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
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