Auguste Rodin Quotes
Auguste Rodin Quotes
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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
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- 2
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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- 3
I invent nothing, I rediscover.
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- 4
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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- 5
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
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- 6
Nobody does good to men with impunity.
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- 7
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
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Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.
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- 9
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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- 10
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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- 11
There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
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- 12
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
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