Auguste Rodin Quotes

Patience is also a form of action.

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.

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

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.

Black is the queen of colours.

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

In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling.