"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 creati...

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One must work nothing but work and one must have patience.
More Auguste Rodin quotes
"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nua...
"To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
"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...
"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.