People say I think too much about women, yet, after all what is there more important to think about?
The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning. 
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist! 
The more simple we are, the more complete we become. 
He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist. 
Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump. 
I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass 
The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with
a thousand different shades of feeling.
Genius only comes to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence. 
Patience is also a form of action. 
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight. 
I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age. 
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. 
It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop 
The artist has only to trust his eyes. 
If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy ... 
Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature 
There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature. 
In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred. 
You must always work. 
Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters. ![Auguste Rodin quotes: Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.](http://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/auguste-rodin-quotes-1603941.jpg "Auguste Rodin quotes: Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.")
Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings. 
Nothing is wasted of time if you use the xperience wisely. 
The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams. 
Black is the queen of colours. 
The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that. 
Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life. 
The nude alone is well dressed 
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. 
I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908) 