Auguste Rodin Quotes
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I invent nothing, I rediscover.
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How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!
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Nobody does good to men with impunity.
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The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.
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People say I think too much about women, yet, after all what is there more important to think about?
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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.
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I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.
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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.
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It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop
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Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.
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I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.
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Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so beautiful. The ignorant and indifferent destroy beautiful things merely by looking at the marble. Things that remake the soul of him who understands them.
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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.
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Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.
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The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.
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Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.
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I would have to talk for a year to repeat a single on of my works with words.
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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.
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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!
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Patience is also a form of action.
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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 body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.
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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 detail minutely, the result will be flat and without character... the artist on the contrary, sees; that is to say, his eye, grafted on his heart, reads deeply into the bosom of nature.
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There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.
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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.
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If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy.
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The more simple we are, the more complete we become.
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In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.
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True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
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I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass
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There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.
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