Name	Auguste Rodin (François-Auguste-René Rodin)
Build	Average
Date of Birth	November 12, 1840
Birthplace	Paris
Star Sign	Scorpio
Died	November 17, 1917 (Aged 77)
Location of Death	Biron Hotel, Paris
Nationality	French
Ethnicity	White
Religion	Roman Catholic
Occupation	Artist
Celebrity Index	Au
Claim to Fame	Le penseur / The thinker
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Trivia and Quotes

Quotes

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don`t need.

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Inside you there`s an artist you don`t know about. He`s not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

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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.

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Nobody does good to men with impunity.

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

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True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

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To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I invent nothing, I rediscover.

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Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

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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.

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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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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.

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