Auguste Rodin Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

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  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

  Art, Creativity, Fire

  Southwestern Art Vol. 6, p. 20, 1977.

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

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Leadership, Summer

  "Heads and Tales". Book by Malvina Hoffman, p. 47, 1936.

• I invent nothing, I rediscover.

  Auguste Rodin

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  "Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works". Book by Camille Mauclair (p. 60-61), 1905.

• To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Life, Art

• Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.1, Courier Corporation

• Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Sculpture, Holes

  "Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works". Book by Auguste Rodin, p. 61-63, 1905.

• What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Art Is, Ugliness

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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

  Auguste Rodin

  Witty, Art, Block

• An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Names, Should

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.80, Courier Corporation

• The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Block, Needed

• True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Passion, Men

• Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Soul, Spirit

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

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Looks, Different

• There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Truth, Character

  Auguste Rodin, Paul Gsell (1983). “Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell”, p.20, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Character, Eye

• The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Principles, Methodology

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.11, Courier Corporation

• There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Morality, Argument

• 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

  Spiritual, Art, Powerful

  Auguste Rodin, Paul Gsell (1984). “Art: Conversations with Paul Gsell”, p.109, Univ of California Press

• In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Sacred, Art Is

  "The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin". Book by Albert Edward Elsen, p. 131, July 1, 1985.

• I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

  Auguste Rodin

  Photography, Art, Believe

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