Auguste Rodin

The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.

— Auguste Rodin

The artist has only to trust his eyes.

— Auguste Rodin

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

— Auguste Rodin

Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.

— Auguste Rodin

What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because…

— Auguste Rodin

I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

— Auguste Rodin

“Nothing is wasted of time if you use the xperience wisely.”

— Auguste Rodin

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or…

— Auguste Rodin

The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.

— Auguste Rodin

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

— Auguste Rodin

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

— Auguste Rodin

Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of…

— Auguste Rodin

In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I…

— Auguste Rodin

As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best…

— Auguste Rodin

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

— Auguste Rodin

You must always work.

— Auguste Rodin

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience...

— Auguste Rodin

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

— Auguste Rodin