"In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always…" — Auguste Rodin
"In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred."
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53 Quotes by Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin has 53 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems…
- Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.
- Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
- The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.
- To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature
- The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.
- The more simple we are, the more complete we become.
- Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature
- I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass
- The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the…
- What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.
- There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no…
More Always Sacred Quotes
This quote is filed under Always Sacred Quotes, one of 3 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
- Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home. — Barbara De Angelis