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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.

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

genius auguste rodin

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.

genius 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.

genius auguste rodin

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

genius auguste rodin

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.

genius auguste rodin

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

genius auguste rodin

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

genius auguste rodin

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

genius auguste rodin

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