The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning. Auguste Rodin More Quotes by Auguste Rodin More Quotes From Auguste Rodin 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. Auguste Rodin portraits sight comfort In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred. Auguste Rodin art-is sacred art 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. Auguste Rodin real dream beautiful 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. Auguste Rodin accomplishment movement artist 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. Auguste Rodin powerful spiritual art There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence. Auguste Rodin genius eye use Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters. Auguste Rodin atmosphere mystery kind 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. Auguste Rodin drawing eye hands To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature Auguste Rodin inspirational life art Black is the queen of colours. Auguste Rodin colour black queens I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god. Auguste Rodin admiration worship beauty Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump. Auguste Rodin sculpture holes art If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy. Auguste Rodin technique energy spiritual I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908) Auguste Rodin photography believe art Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight. Auguste Rodin different looks art Nobody does good to men with impunity. Auguste Rodin impunity doe men My drawings are the result of my sculpture. Auguste Rodin sculpture drawing results 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. Auguste Rodin shadow light play 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! Auguste Rodin rejection painful helping One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience. Auguste Rodin having-patience
