Auguste Rodin Quotes

“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.”

Auguste Rodin

“And as it is solely the power of _character_ which makes for beauty in art, it often happens that the uglier a being is in nature, the more beautiful it becomes in art. “There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth. “Whatever is false, whatever is artificial, whatever seeks to be pretty rather than expressive, whatever is capricious and affected, whatever smiles without motive, bends or struts without cause, is mannered without reason; all that is without soul and without truth; all that is only a _parade_ of beauty and grace; all, in short, that lies, is _ugliness_ in art. “When an artist, intending to improve upon nature, adds green to the springtime, rose to the sunrise, carmine to young lips, he creates ugliness because he lies. “When he softens the grimace of pain, the shapelessness of age, the hideousness of perversion, when he arranges nature—veiling, disguising, tempering it to please the ignorant public—then he is creating ugliness because he fears the truth. “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. “He has only to look into a human face in order to read there the soul within—not a feature deceives him; hypocrisy is as transparent as sincerity—the line of a forehead, the least lifting of a brow, the flash of an eye, reveal to him all the secrets of a heart. “Or he may study the hidden mind of the animal. A mixture of feelings and of thoughts, of dumb intelligences and of rudimentary affections, he reads the whole humble moral life of the beast in its eyes and in its movements. “He is even the confidant of nature. The trees, the plants talk to him like friends. The old gnarled oaks speak to him of their kindliness for the human race whom they protect beneath their sheltering branches. The flowers commune with him by the gracious swaying of their stalks, by the singing tones of their petals—each blossom amidst the grass is a friendly word addressed to him by nature. “For him life is an endless joy, a perpetual delight, a mad intoxication. Not that all seems good to him, for suffering, which must often come to those he loves and to himself, cruelly contradicts his optimism.

“There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.”

Auguste Rodin

“The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.”

Auguste Rodin

“I invent nothing, I rediscover.”

Auguste Rodin

“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I dont need.”

Auguste Rodin

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

Auguste Rodin

“True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure”

Auguste Rodin

“Mans naked form+ belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages”

Auguste Rodin

“Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.”

Auguste Rodin

“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.”

Auguste Rodin

“Inside you theres an artist you dont know about. Hes not interested in how things look different in moonlight.”

Auguste Rodin

Mans naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

Auguste Rodin

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

Auguste Rodin

Nothing is wasted of time if you use the xperience wisely.

Auguste Rodin

The artist is the confidant of nature flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

Auguste Rodin

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

Auguste Rodin

I invent nothing. I rediscover.

Auguste Rodin

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

Auguste Rodin

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

Auguste Rodin

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.

Auguste Rodin

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