I obey Nature, and never do I dare give orders to it. My only ambition is servile fidelity to it.

Auguste Rodin

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Topic

Artistic process Art

Speaker

Auguste Rodin

Source

La Revenue

Medium

Interview

Language

French

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Sculptor Artist

From

France Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Rodin, Auguste. Interview by Paul Gsell. La Revenue, 1910.

Current Citation

Rodin, Auguste. Quoted in Art: Conversations with Paul Gsell by Paul Gsell. U of California P, 1984.

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Another quote from the 1910s

He was unheeded, happy and near to the wild heart of life.

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Topic
Happiness Contentment Being carefree

Author

James Joyce
Source
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The Egoist. 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915. Serial.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 4.

Another quote about Art

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
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

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

Current Citation

Sontag, Susan. "America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly." On Photography. Picador, 2001.

Another quote originally in French

Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves.

Arthur Rimbaud

The Drunken Boat

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Topic
Ocean and sea

Author

Arthur Rimbaud
Source
The Drunken Boat
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
French
Time
1871 1870s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Rimbaud, Arthur. Le Bateau Ivre [The Drunken Boat]. Les Poetes maudits. Edited by Paul Verlaine. 1884.

Current Citation

Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le bateau ivre/The Drunken Boat." Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition. Translated by Wallace Fowlie. Revised by Seth Whidden. U of Chicago P, 2005.