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Auguste Rodin Biography

François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917), known as Auguste Rodin (/oʊˈɡuːst roʊˈdæ̃/; French: [oɡyst ʁɔdɛ̃]), 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.

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The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.

Ambitious, Dream, Dreams, Inspirational, Reality, Surpass

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Body, Human, Mirror, Mirrors, Photography, Soul

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

Art, Block, Choose, Chop, Witty

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.

Beautiful, Dream, Edge, Indifferent, Living, Real

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

Having Patience, Nothing, Patience, Work

What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it. . . My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

Describing, Drawing, Eye, Hands, See, Shift

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.

Color, Expression, Men, Souls, Worse

If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul.

Admiration, Artist, Character, Face, Photography

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Art, Different, Look, Looks, Moonlight

I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

Age, Contradiction, Fighting, Know, Spirit

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.

Body, Taken, Torso

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.

Admiration, Beauty, Like, Nude, Unbounded, Worship

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Inspirational, Leadership, Summer, Time, Waste, Wisely

Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the studio by studying the model, everywhere except in the schools.

Clouds, School, Sculpture, Studio, Tree

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

Calling, Love, Marriage, Meaning, Passion

I would have to talk for a year to repeat a single on of my works with words.

Repeat, Repeats, Words, Works, Year, Years

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.

Character, Eye, Fail, Flower, Recalls, Splendor

If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended.

Accomplishment, Artist, Image, Movement, Producing, Time

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, Copying, Eye, Say

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.

Blends, Light, Modesty, Play, Sculptures, Shadow

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