Quotes About Rodin

We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the genre of the autonomous torso. The poet's view of the mutilated body thus has nothing to do with the previous century's Romanticism of fragments and ruins; it is part of the breakthrough in modern art to the concept of the object that states itself with authority and the body that publicizes itself with authorization.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

I use Rodin Luxury Face Oil at night, and it keeps my skin hydrated and refreshed for the day - not tired from all the makeup.

En la mesa vecina a la mía se había instalado una familia tipo (padre, madre, hijo, hija) argentina (el señor mirando el Rodin, la señora diciéndole algo en voz baja, la hija tratando de escuchar lo que decía la madre, y el hijo con cara de culo).

Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

Inferno. In addition to Botticelli's celebrated Map of Hell, there was Rodin's timeless sculpture of The Three Shades from The Gates of Hell Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Stradanus's illustration of Phlegyas paddling through submerged bodies on

Rodin once said that a combination of extraordinary circumstances was needed for a man to live to 70 and to pursue with passion what he loves.

here" was the garden of the Musée Rodin, in Paris,

Rodin was on the brink of a grand passion. But unlike Bernhardt's, his lover would become the greatest inspiration of his career. Her name was Camille Claudel, and if she was not pretty in a conventional way, she was as beautiful and alive as quicksilver. She was also an extraordinarily gifted sculptor in her own right.