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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
François Auguste Rodin
Francois A. Rene Rodin
Rodan
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François Auguste René Rodin
René François Auguste Rodin
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Roden Rone Fransua Ogyust
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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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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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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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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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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 invent nothing, I rediscover.
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He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.
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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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Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
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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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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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There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in 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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In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.
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Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature
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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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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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