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

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
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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 human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.
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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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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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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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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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How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!
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To the artist there is never anything ugly 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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He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.
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I invent nothing, I rediscover.
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