The artist must have the patience of water that eats away the rock drop by drop.

Auguste Rodin

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Topic

Artistic process Patience Art

Speaker

Auguste Rodin

Source

Rodin: The Man and His Art, with Leaves from His Notebook

Genre

Biography

Language

French

Occupation

Sculptor Artist

From

France Europe

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Citation

Rodin, Auguste and S. K. Star. Rodin: The Man and His Art, with Leaves from His Notebook. Century, 1917, p. 7.

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Susan Sontag

Freak Show

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Topic
Modern art Power of art Art

Author

Susan Sontag
Source
Freak Show The New York Review of Books
Medium
Essay Magazine
Language
English
Time
1973 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Sontag, Susan. "Freak Show." The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 1973.

Another quote originally in French

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Simone Weil

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Topic
Nature of power

Author

Simone Weil
Language
French
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
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Original Citation

Weil, Simone. "L'iliade ou le poeme de la force [The Iliad, or The Poem of Force]." Les Cahiers du Sud, 1940.

Current Citation

Weil, Simone. "The Iliad, or The Poem of Force." Simone Weil: An Anthology, translated by Sian Miles. Grove Press, 2000.