Translated to English, it- "I think therefore I am". I like how it sounds it French better than in English. Pictured above, a very nice gentleman has done the infamous pose of "The Thinker" (which is also French, Le Penseur).
"The Thinker (French: Le Penseur) is a bronze and marble sculpture by Auguste Rodin held in the Musée Rodin in Paris. It depicts a man in sober meditation battling with a powerful internal struggle[citation needed]. It is often used to represent philosophy." - Wikipedia
I like how The Thinker is representing something, someone's philosophy and it's frozen in time. Although it has been casted over, at a bigger scale and also re-named from "The Poet" to "The Thinker"- the idea remains the same. I think it's easier for me to relate art and philosophy together, being an amature artist than it is to relate my own philosophical ideas to other philosophers. However, maybe that it is because I could not be opening my mind up enough to such ideas.
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