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
If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy...
There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.
I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.
Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
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.
One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience...
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 beneath appearances.
People say I think too much about women, yet, after all what is there more important to think about?
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!
The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.
The nude alone is well dressed
My drawings are the result of my sculpture.
Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature