Quote of Auguste Rodin - The artist must create a spark...
Biography - Auguste Rodin:
French sculptor.
Born: 1840 - Died: 1917
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1840 - Died: 1917
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
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.
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Quotes about art:
The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Quotes for: fire
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
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