Auguste Rodin - Spirit Quotes

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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. It is the joy of the intellect which sees clearly into the Universe and which recreates it, with conscientious vision. Art is the most sublime mission of man, since it is the expression of thought seeking to understand the world and to make it understood.

Auguste Rodin
The search in modem life is for utility; the endeavor is to improve existence materially. Every day, science invents new processes for the feeding, clothing, or transportation of man; she manufactures cheaply inferior products in order to give adulterated luxuries to the greatest number — though it is true that she has also made real improvements in all that ministers to our daily wants. But it is no longer a question of spirit, of thought, of dreams. Art is dead.

Auguste Rodin
I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

Auguste Rodin
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.

Auguste Rodin
The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.

Auguste Rodin