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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
Rodan
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René François Auguste Rodin
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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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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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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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The artist has only to trust his eyes.
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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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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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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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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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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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True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
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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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My drawings are the result of my sculpture.
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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 only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.
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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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Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
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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 invent nothing, I rediscover.
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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 more simple we are, the more complete we become.
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