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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
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Sculptor
Paris
France
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François-Auguste-René Rodin
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Francois A. Rene Rodin
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René François Auguste Rodin
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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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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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The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.
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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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The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.
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My drawings are the result of my sculpture.
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He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.
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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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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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I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.
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One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.
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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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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
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Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.
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Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature
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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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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 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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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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