Speaking of a thinker, we must first say his origin. The earliest thinkers appeared in Rodin's unfinished work The Gate of Hell. The creation of Hell's Gate was inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy-Hell. The door is full of souls who have fallen into hell. There is a profound thinker in the center of the door, which was originally a portrayal of Rodin himself and represented the author's thinking about human nature. He was later identified as the poet Dante.
Since then, inspired by Rodin's secretary and Austrian poet Rilke, The Thinker has become another work from the jaws of death besides Kiss and Three Shadows.
Rodin's works no longer simply pursue physical similarity, but more pursue inner expression and emotional embodiment, which is Rodin's greatness. He is the link between classical sculpture and modern sculpture, and he knocked on the door of modern sculpture art.