List of Auguste Rodin Quotes

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Auguste Rodin
Total Quotes 66
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.
Light Play Shadow
Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature
Documents
I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)
Photography Art Believe
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.
Taken Body Torso
My drawings are the result of my sculpture.
Drawing Sculpture Results
If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy.
Spiritual Technique Energy
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!
Rejection Helping Painful
Black is the queen of colours.
Queens Black Colour
Nobody does good to men with impunity.
Men Doe Impunity
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. he's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
Art Looks Different
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.
Artist Accomplishment Movement
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.
Men Color Drawing
  • Born: November 12, 1840
  • Died: November 17, 1917
  • Occupation: Sculptor
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