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Biography - Auguste Rodin:

French sculptor.
Born: 1840 - Died: 1917
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

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.



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Quotes for: art


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Quotes about art:


Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.





My trade and art is to live.





The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.





Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.





I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'





The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.











Quotes

Quotes for: fire


Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of the fire.





Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.





One must never let the fire go out in one's soul but keep it burning.





This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.





Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.





As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.











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Auguste Rodin also said...


The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them drawing and color are better or worse than in others.





Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.





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.





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.





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.





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.












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