79 Quotes by Auguste Rodin

The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.

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.

A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each detail minutely, the result will be flat and without character... the artist on the contrary, sees; that is to say, his eye, grafted on his heart, reads deeply into the bosom of nature.

I would have to talk for a year to repeat a single on of my works with words.

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.

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.

I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop