79 Quotes by Auguste Rodin

People say I think too much about women, yet, after all what is there more important to think about?

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!

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

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so beautiful. The ignorant and indifferent destroy beautiful things merely by looking at the marble. Things that remake the soul of him who understands them.

The nude alone is well dressed

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

My drawings are the result of my sculpture.