Auguste Rodin Quotes - Page 3

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.

The artist has only to trust his eyes.

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.

Black is the queen of colours.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy.

My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

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

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.