Quote of Auguste Rodin - Art is contemplation. It is the...
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
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.
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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 about nature:
Quotes about mind:
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Quotes about pleasure:
Quotes for: contemplation
Beauty is no quality in things themselves : It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them ; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Who am I? Subject and object in one — contemplating and contemplated, thinking and thought of. As both must I have become what I am.
The first philosophers were astronomers. The heavens remind man … that he is destined not merely to act, but also to contemplate.
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