Quote of Auguste Rodin - The artist is the confidant of...

Biography - Auguste Rodin:

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

Quote

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.”
Auguste Rodin

Quotes about nature:

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

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”
Francis Bacon

nature

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires

Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.”
Vincent Willem van Gogh - Letters to Theo

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
Edvard Munch

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Quotes for: flower:

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."”
Hans Christian Andersen

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches,
And here is my heart which beats only for you. ”
Paul Verlaine - Green

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
Oscar Wilde

Earth laughs in flowers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Hamatreya

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”
Gérard de Nerval

Flowers are the beautiful words and hieroglyphics of Nature, by which she indicates how much she loves us.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Quotes for: artist:

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.”
Gustav Klimt

artist

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”
Eugene Delacroix

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
Pablo Picasso

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Great artists have no country.”
Alfred de Musset

artist

Every human being should be an artist. Everything can become beautiful art.”
Novalis

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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.”
Auguste Rodin

genius

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

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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