Auguste Rodin > Quotes

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

“Patience is also a form of action.”
― Auguste Rodin

“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!”
― Auguste Rodin

“Man's 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

“I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass”
― 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

“Nothing is wasted of time if you use the xperience wisely.”
― Auguste Rodin

“Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature”
― Auguste Rodin, RODIN SCULPTURES

“In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.”
― Auguste Rodin

“It is the artist who is truthful, while the photographer is mendacious; for, in reality, time never stops cold.”
― Auguste Rodin

“Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.”
― Auguste Rodin

“The dazzling splendour revealed to the artist by the model that divests herself of her clothes has the effect of the sun piercing the clouds. Venus, Eve, these are feeble terms to express the beauty
of women.”
― Auguste Rodin

“When he sees beings everywhere destroying each other; when he sees all youth fading, all strength failing, all genius dying, when he is face to face with the will which decreed these tragic laws, more than ever he rejoices in his knowledge, and, seized anew by the passion for truth, he is happy.”
― Auguste Rodin, Rodin on Art and Artists

“At times his own heart is on the rack, yet stronger than his pain is the bitter joy which he experiences in understanding and giving expression to that pain.”
― Auguste Rodin, Rodin on Art and Artists

“There is grace in elegance, but beyond grace there is perfection”
― Auguste Rodin

“He salutes ingratitude as an experience which shall enrich his soul. His ecstasy is terrifying at times, but it is still happiness, because it is the continual adoration of truth.”
― Auguste Rodin, Rodin on Art and Artists

“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.”
― Auguste Rodin

“For him life is an endless joy, a perpetual delight, a mad intoxication. Not all seems good to him, for suffering, which must often come to those he loves and to himself, cruelly contradicts his optimism. But all is beautiful to him because he walks forever in the light of spiritual truth.”
― Auguste Rodin