The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist! — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there,… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908) — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy... — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
People say I think too much about women, yet, after all what is there more important to think about? — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
