Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin
François Auguste René Rodin, known as Auguste Rodin, was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition, although he was never accepted into Paris's foremost school of art...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth12 November 1840
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
You must always work.
I invent nothing, I rediscover.
Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.
Patience is also a form of action.
The more simple we are, the more complete we become.
The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!
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.
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.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling.
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 open book, all the inner truth.
Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.