I invent nothing; I rediscover.
Rien n'est laid dans la nature, il n'y a que la laideur dans l'imitation.
Artists
Auguste Rodin
Born in Paris in 1840, Rodin is regarded as the father of modern sculpture. The Thinker and The Kiss broke with academic convention through raw emotion and unfinished surfaces.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone.
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God, or Nature.
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