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
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.
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!
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.
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.
The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.
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.
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature
The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.
There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.