Best Quotes by Auguste Rodin (Top 10)

  1. Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
  2. The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!
  3. Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
  4. 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.
  5. Patience is also a form of action.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. I invent nothing, I rediscover.
  9. Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
  10. I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

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