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To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

~Auguste Rodin

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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

Topics: Artist Bending Blossoms Carry Every Flower Flowers Graceful Him Nature Nuances Stems Through Towards Which Word

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

~Auguste Rodin

Topics: Experience Nothing Time Use Waste Waste Of Time Wisely You

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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

Topics: Art Artist Before Born Consumed Create Creation Fire He His Make Must Own Ready Spark

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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.

~Auguste Rodin

Topics: Does Eyes Forces Forms Give Her Intelligence Lends Nature Our Ourselves Reserve See She Shows Suspect Them Understand Unknown Us Watching Which Wholly Without

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

~Auguste Rodin

Topics: Block Choose Chop Marble Need Off Whatever

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

~Auguste Rodin

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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

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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

Topics: Ages Belongs By The People Eternal Form History Joy Looked Man Moment Naked Particular People

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I invent nothing, I rediscover.

~Auguste Rodin

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Sculptor

Born: November 12th, 1840

Died: November 17th, 1917

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