Auguste Rodin Quotes

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?

My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Art is the skin of the soul.

Dancing is more than just moving body parts; it is a pathway of expressing your deepest inner thoughts.

Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes.

The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?

The physical body is an agent of the spirit and its mirror. It is an engine and a reflection of the spirit. It is the spirit's ingenious memorandum to itself and the spirit sees itself in my body, just as I see my own face in a looking glass. My nerves reflect this. The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

Your body's just a vehicle, transporting the soul. It's what's inside of people, is beauty to behold.

Each body has its art.

Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.

Life is but the expression of spirit through matter. To make life manifest requires the union of spirit and body.

Every movement reveals us.

It's nothing mystical, necessarily. It's nothing secretive. It's just what we do with our body we do with our soul.

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.