I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)
Auguste RodinThe human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.
Auguste RodinRecently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.
Auguste RodinThere is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.
Auguste RodinA 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.
Auguste Rodin