Auguste Rodin quote: "I invent nothing, I rediscover."

I invent nothing. I rediscover.
AUGUSTE RODIN

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ...
AUGUSTE RODIN

Patience is also a form of action.
AUGUSTE RODIN

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
AUGUSTE RODIN

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

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divi...
AUGUSTE RODIN

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked up...
AUGUSTE RODIN

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
AUGUSTE RODIN

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

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends...
AUGUSTE RODIN

Aurora.
AUGUSTE RODIN

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say ...
AUGUSTE RODIN

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

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.
AUGUSTE RODIN

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there div...
AUGUSTE RODIN

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bend...
AUGUSTE RODIN

Nobody does good to men with impunity.
AUGUSTE RODIN

Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so b...
AUGUSTE RODIN

You will make the world understand my Balzac through these pictures.
AUGUSTE RODIN

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things loo...
AUGUSTE RODIN

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

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly acceptin...
AUGUSTE RODIN

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
AUGUSTE RODIN Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.
BRENT SPINER

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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

I have come here to rediscover myself as an artist.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I mean, I'm with him, and he's with me, and that's the way it's meant to eternally be.
ALYSON NOEL

Whenever I hear about people trying to rediscover the "child within," I want to scream.
BILL WATTERSON

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
GENE TIERNEY Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to wo...
JACOB EPSTEIN As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of...
JACOB EPSTEIN My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its ...
JACOB EPSTEIN My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their id...
JACOB EPSTEIN I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sci...
JACOB EPSTEIN The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, wh...
JACOB EPSTEIN I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me...
JACOB EPSTEIN My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the wor...
JACOB EPSTEIN There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can ...
JACOB EPSTEIN All art is a confession.
GASTON LACHAISE

I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for tho...
RICHARD MACDONALD I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
LOUISE BERLIAWSKY NEVELSON With long skirts, you can really buff. People open doors for you and everything.
NIKI DE ST. PHALLE I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich ma...
WILLARD WIGAN I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were deve...
JAMES SANBORN Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.
NIKI DE ST. PHALLE I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had ...
FELIX DE WELDON The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
FELIX DE WELDON Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent...
FELIX DE WELDON Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how ...
EDUARDO CHILLIDA In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main...
EDUARDO CHILLIDA To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try...
EDUARDO CHILLIDA Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be foun...
EDUARDO CHILLIDA Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA

No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro,...
EDMONIA LEWIS

Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.
EDMONIA LEWIS

I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a ...
EDMONIA LEWIS

I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.
EDMONIA LEWIS

Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather y...
EDMONIA LEWIS

My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian ...
EDMONIA LEWIS

There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the bough...
EDMONIA LEWIS

Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a wa...
EDMONIA LEWIS A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a ...
DAN FLAVIN Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by plant...
DAN FLAVIN One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open ...
DAN FLAVIN It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathemati...
JAMES SANBORN

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about ...
RICHARD MACDONALD

I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
EDMONIA LEWIS In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakene...
GASTON LACHAISE The hand has the richest articulation of space.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA

China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurativ...
RICHARD MACDONALD My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrat...
DAN FLAVIN

One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work,...
EDMONIA LEWIS I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the...
JACOB EPSTEIN As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank...
WILLARD WIGAN When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbol...
ROBERT GOBER

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he inve...
JEAN ARP I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.
MARTIN PURYEAR Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of...
DIEGO GIACOMETTI Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heave...
ROBERT GRAHAM

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped o...
CLAES OLDENBURG I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.
JOHN BACON True strength is delicate.
LOUISE BERLIAWSKY NEVELSON The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslav...
LOUISE BERLIAWSKY NEVELSON

My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, ...
RICHARD MACDONALD One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the comp...
JEAN TINGUELY The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.
MARTIN PURYEAR At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a r...
WILLARD WIGAN Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.
RUTH ASAWA

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the archit...
CLAES OLDENBURG

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.
RICHARD MACDONALD Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the intern...
RUTH ASAWA What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
LOUISE BERLIAWSKY NEVELSON The microscopic world became my obsession.
WILLARD WIGAN When you work at a microscopic level, you have to control every part of your body movement - your fi...
WILLARD WIGAN All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And there's only one way to do it. The idea is t...
RUTH ASAWA Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.
WILLARD WIGAN

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

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