Auguste Rodin Quotes

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• 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…
• 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.
• In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.
• 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 richest meaning.
• 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 outer or inner truth.
• Nobody does good to men with impunity.
• 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…
• 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…
• If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves…
• I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.
• 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…
• It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop

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