Francois-Auguste Rodin Quotes

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.].

I invent nothing. I rediscover.

Patience is also a form of action.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

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

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.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so beautiful. The ignorant and indifferent destroy beautiful things merely by looking at the marble. Things that remake the soul of him who understands them.