Quotes by Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin

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.

Art

Character

Eye

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.

Art

Names

Should

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

Art

Soul

Spirit

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.

Light

Play

Shadow

Black is the queen of colours.

Black

Colour

Queens

He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.

Artist

Discouraged

Real

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!

Helping

Painful

Rejection

I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

Moon

Sea

Shine On

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

Art

Believe

Photography

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.

Art

Block

Witty

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Drawing

Dream

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Eye

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Fire

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Giving

Having Patience

Helping

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Quotes by Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin

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.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

Black is the queen of colours.

He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.

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!

I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

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

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.

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