로댕
자연은 언제나 완전하다. 결코 잘못을 저지르지 않는다. 우리의 입장, 우리의 눈에서 잘못이 있는 것이다.
오귀스트 로댕
진정한 예술가들만이 거의 유일하게 자신의 일을 즐기는 사람들이라고 할 수 있다.
예술가에게 있어서는 자연의 어떠한 것도 추하지 않다.
무엇도 그 경험을 지혜롭게 쓴다면, 시간의 낭비가 되지 않는다.
나는 아무것도 발명하지 않는다. 나는 재 발견 할 뿐이다.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about. He’s not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.
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.