Auguste Rodin Quote

The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, which means all that vibrates on the surface: spirit, soul, love, passion — life.... Sculpture is thus the art of hollows and mounds, not of smoothness, or even polished planes.


In; Victor Frisch, Joseph Twadell Shipley (1939). Auguste Rodin. p. 203: About the act of creation.


The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, which means all that vibrates on the surface: spirit, soul, love, passion — life.... Sculpture is ...

The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, which means all that vibrates on the surface: spirit, soul, love, passion — life.... Sculpture is ...

The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, which means all that vibrates on the surface: spirit, soul, love, passion — life.... Sculpture is ...

The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, which means all that vibrates on the surface: spirit, soul, love, passion — life.... Sculpture is ...