Auguste Rodin: Quotes about nature

Auguste Rodin was French sculptor. Explore interesting quotes on nature.

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“One can never do anything so beautiful as nature.”

Source: Rodin : the man and his art, with leaves from his notebook, 1917, p. 300

“In art a thing is beautiful whenever it has character. Character — this is the intense truth of any natural spectacle, whether beautiful or ugly. You may even call it a double truth. For it is the inner essence expressed by the outer appearance. It is the soul, the sentiment, the idea that shines out through the features of a fare, the pose and action of a human body, the tones of a skym the line of a horizon.”

Rodin on realism, 1910

“Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit by which Nature herself is animated. It is the joy of the intellect which sees clearly into the Universe and which recreates it, with conscientious vision. Art is the most sublime mission of man, since it is the expression of thought seeking to understand the world and to make it understood.”

Preface, p. 7-8
1910s, Art, 1912