Auguste Rodin was a French artistic titan widely acclaimed as the father of modern sculpture, whose masterpieces 'The Thinker', 'The Kiss', and 'The Burghers of Calais' broke away from academic neoclassicism to capture the raw emotional truth, textured realism, and psychological torment of the human body.
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Pioneering French Sculptor and Father of Modern Sculpture
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Honor the extraordinary legacy of Auguste Rodin on November 12 with these curated quotes, philosophical reflections, and heartfelt tributes celebrating their monumental impact on French Sculptor & Progenitor of Modern Sculpture.
“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.”
“True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.”
“Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit by which nature herself is animated.”
“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.”
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
“Patience is also a form of action.”
“Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.”
“I invent nothing, I rediscover.”
“Work passionately and without cease. The only virtue is work.”
“Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal.”
Pioneering French Sculptor and Father of Modern Sculpture
