Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin
François Auguste René Rodin, known as Auguste Rodin, was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition, although he was never accepted into Paris's foremost school of art...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth12 November 1840
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.
In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.
The artist has only to trust his eyes.
I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)
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.
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.
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.
There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.