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Artist Quotes by Auguste Rodin
- 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…
- To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature
- 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…
- It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop
- He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.
- A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each…
- An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner…
- I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths…
- If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than…
- True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
- The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed…
- To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an…
- Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
- The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!
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- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
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