Top 96 Quotes About Rodin: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Rodin

#1. I use Rodin Luxury Face Oil at night, and it keeps my skin hydrated and refreshed for the day - not tired from all the makeup.

Erin Heatherton

#2. You see that it is not at all like Rodin ... I share these only with you, don't show them.

Camille Claudel

#3. There's no denying his resemblance to the Rodin bronze - the slender, effortless muscularity of youth, the extravagant nonchalance of it; that sense that beauty is in fact the natural human condition and not the rarest of mutations.

Michael Cunningham

#4. I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. God is the opposite of Rodin.

Robert Walser

#6. Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.

Camille Claudel

#7. Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#8. I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

Constantin Brancusi

#9. Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.

Camille Paglia

#10. You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

Roger Vadim

#11. Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

Camille Claudel

#12. While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies.

Paul Claudel

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

Auguste Rodin

#14. There's a lot of work being done through the innovation arm of the World Bank, at the World Bank Institute. There's a lot of work that we at the Rockefeller Foundation are doing and funding towards that end, and increasingly, the U.S. government is getting engaged.

Judith Rodin

#15. The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Auguste Rodin

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

Auguste Rodin

#17. What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it ... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

Auguste Rodin

#18. My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

Auguste Rodin

#19. Without impact, innovation is just an idea with promise.

Judith Rodin

#20. Never ... stop at the boundaries of what you think your knowledge or training would suggest. If a problem grabs you, run with it and try to understand it from beginning to end, even if that means learning new techniques or developing them yourself.

Judith Rodin

#21. Philanthropy can take the risks that others cannot or will not.

Judith Rodin

#22. I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

Auguste Rodin

#23. Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

Auguste Rodin

#24. Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.

Auguste Rodin

#25. 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.

Auguste Rodin

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

Auguste Rodin

#27. The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

Auguste Rodin

#28. There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.

Auguste Rodin

#29. There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

Auguste Rodin

#30. This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was the true innovation of John D. Rockefeller, and ultimately the Rockefeller Foundation's legacy.

Judith Rodin

#31. Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

Auguste Rodin

#32. Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

Auguste Rodin

#33. Nobody does good to men with impunity.

Auguste Rodin

#34. It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop

Auguste Rodin

#35. I have been honored and privileged to have led The Rockefeller Foundation for the last seven years, and I am excited to be leading the Foundation as we enter our centennial year.

Judith Rodin

#36. What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

Auguste Rodin

#37. In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

Auguste Rodin

#38. Walk away. Leave her be.
And let this opportunity pass?
Relinquish the chance to be alone with her while she admired his art?
The temptation was too much to resist.

Lisa Carlisle

#39. Nothing is wasted of time if you use the xperience wisely.

Auguste Rodin

#40. I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

Auguste Rodin

#41. If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul.

Auguste Rodin

#42. I think all philanthropy invests in product innovation, whether in a vaccine or a new kind of product of one sort or another, and I think we'll all continue to do that.

Judith Rodin

#43. The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

Auguste Rodin

#44. It's necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.

Judith Rodin

#45. An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.

Auguste Rodin

#46. The artist enriches the soul of humanity.
The artist delights people with
a thousand different shades of feeling.

Auguste Rodin

#47. I would have to talk for a year to repeat a single on of my works with words.

Auguste Rodin

#48. community, an organization, or a natural system - to prepare for disruptions, to recover from shocks and stresses, and to adapt and grow from a disruptive experience. As you build resilience, therefore, you become more able to prevent or mitigate stresses and shocks you can identify

Judith Rodin

#49. People say I think too much about women, yet, after all what is there more important to think about?

Auguste Rodin

#50. Patience is also a form of action.

Auguste Rodin

#51. 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.

Auguste Rodin

#52. The nude alone is well dressed

Auguste Rodin

#53. That is the resilience dividend. It means more than effectively returning to normal functioning after a disruption, although that is critical. It is about achieving significant transformation that yields benefits even when disruptions are not

Judith Rodin

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

Auguste Rodin

#55. You must always work.

Auguste Rodin

#56. I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.

Auguste Rodin

#57. Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

Auguste Rodin

#58. Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Auguste Rodin

#59. 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.

Auguste Rodin

#60. 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.

Auguste Rodin

#61. Expectations have a way of being fulfilled.

Judith Rodin

#62. So this is love:
the Sculptor's chisel.
And stone, which in its whole life
does not utter a single word,
suddenly sings.

Milan Rufus

#63. You also develop greater capacity to bounce back from a crisis, learn from it, and achieve revitalization. Ideally, as you become more adept at managing disruption and skilled at resilience

Judith Rodin

#64. If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy ...

Auguste Rodin

#65. Impact investing can be a powerful instrument of change.

Judith Rodin

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

Auguste Rodin

#67. In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it; it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me.

Auguste Rodin

#68. In the twenty-first century, building resilience is one of our most urgent social and economic issues because we live in a world that is defined by disruption. Not a month goes by that we don't see some kind of disturbance to the normal flow of life

Judith Rodin

#69. It was time to take what he wanted. And what he wanted was her.

Lisa Carlisle

#70. 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.

Auguste Rodin

#71. 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.

Auguste Rodin

#72. 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.

Auguste Rodin

#73. The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Auguste Rodin

#74. We must do more and with more urgency to empower women.

Judith Rodin

#75. The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.

Auguste Rodin

#76. Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.

Auguste Rodin

#77. Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the studio by studying the model, everywhere except in the schools.

Auguste Rodin

#78. If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended.

Auguste Rodin

#79. Genius only comes to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

Auguste Rodin

#80. The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.

Auguste Rodin

#81. He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.

Auguste Rodin

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

Auguste Rodin

#83. 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.

Auguste Rodin

#84. How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future ... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!

Auguste Rodin

#85. Black is the queen of colours.

Auguste Rodin

#86. What treasures he would give for one night with her. To watch her strip off one of her vintage dresses, revealing her satin skin inch by inch just for him.

Lisa Carlisle

#87. Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

Auguste Rodin

#88. The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

Auguste Rodin

#89. The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.

Auguste Rodin

#90. The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.

Judith Rodin