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“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” - Auguste Rodin
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“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” - Auguste Rodin
The sculptor, Auguste Rodin, died of frostbite in 1917, when the French government refused him financial aid for a flat. Yet they kept his statues warmly housed in museums.
Rodin’s "The Age of Bronze" was so realistic people thought he sacrificed a real person inside the cast. Ummm...how do we know he didn’t?