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“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 by the fire of his own creation.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Art #Creativity #Fire
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“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Inspirational #Leadership #Summer
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“Patience is also a form of action.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Patience #Work #Excellence
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“The more simple we are, the more complete we become.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Simple #Simplicity
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“I invent nothing, I rediscover.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Life #Beautiful #Art
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“There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Nature #Eye #Giving
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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 of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Flower #Artist #Bending
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“Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Love #Marriage #Passion
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“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 no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Photography #Character #Artist
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“To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Artist #Ugly #Environment
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“Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Art #Creativity #Serenity
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“I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Admiration #Worship
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“True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Art #Passion #Men
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“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 studio by studying the model, everywhere except in the schools.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#School #Clouds #Tree
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“It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Photography #Lying #Artist
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“The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Body #Envelopes #Spirit
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“What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Art #Art Is #Ugliness
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“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Witty #Art #Block
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“Nobody does good to men with impunity.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Men #Doe
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“Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Art #Sculpture #Holes
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“The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Men #Expression #Color
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“Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Beauty #Men #People
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“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Artist #Men #Being An Artist
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“As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Light #Play #Shadow
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“Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Work #Littles #Born
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“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 truth.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Art #Names #Should
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“What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Eye #Hands #Drawing
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“My drawings are the result of my sculpture.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Drawing #Sculpture #Results
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“The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Art #Principles #Methodology
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“In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it; it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me.”
-- Auguste Rodin
#Sight #Portraits #Comfort
