There are things that other people do not see: unknown depths, the wellsprings of life... There is grace in elegance; above grace, there is modelling… - Auguste Rodin

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There are things that other people do not see: unknown depths, the wellsprings of life... There is grace in elegance; above grace, there is modelling; everything is exaggerated; we call it soft but it is most powerfully soft! Words fail me then.

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About Auguste Rodin

François-Auguste-René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917) was a French sculptor, and the preeminent sculptor of the modern era. He played a pivotal role in the art of the late nineteenth century, both excelling at and rebelling against the Beaux-Arts tradition.

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Alternative Names: Rodan Ogi︠u︡st Roden François Auguste René Rodin René François Auguste Rodin august rodin rodin a. rodin rodin auguste rodin a. aug. rodin e. rodin Lo-tan Roden Rone Fransua Ogyust François-Auguste-René Rodin Rodin François Auguste Rodin Francois A. Rene Rodin

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Take more room, examine my 'Gate' from a little farther off, and you will see once more the effect of the whole — the effect of unity which charms you when it is deprived of its ornamentation. You must understand that my sculpture is so calculated as to melt into the principal masses. For that matter, it completes them by modeling them into the light. The essential designs are there: it is possible that in the course of the final work I may find it necessary to diminish such or such a projection, to fill out such or such a pool of shadow; nevertheless, leave this difficulty to my fifty years of artisanship and experience, and you may be sure that quite by myself I shall find the best way of finishing my work.

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