Auguste Rodin

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.

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

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.

The artist enriches the soul of humanity. _x000D_ The artist delights people with _x000D_ a thousand different shades of feeling.

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

My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

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.

He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.

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.

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

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.