Quote of Auguste Rodin - Art is contemplation. It is the...

Biography - Auguste Rodin:

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

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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.”
Auguste Rodin

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Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.”
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My trade and art is to live.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

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

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
Pablo Picasso

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.'”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
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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.”
Auguste Rodin

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

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.”
Auguste Rodin

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.”
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.”
Auguste Rodin

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.”
Auguste Rodin

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