Aristide Maillol: Artist

Aristide Maillol was sculptor from France. Explore interesting quotes on artist.
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“The immobility that the artist creates is not at all that of the photograph. A worth of art contains latent life, possibility of movement; a grimace made eternal does not represent life. One always talks of w:Donatello, but never of della Quercia. Yet della Qercia invented w:Michelangelo’s style before Michelangelo.”

Aristide Maillol

Source: Conversations with Judith Cladel (1939–1944), p. 408

“When Picasso does pure painting he is a great artist. When he paints as an cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the result very strong. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.”

Aristide Maillol

Source: Conversations with Judith Cladel (1939–1944), p. 407

“Those who do Negro-sculpture in this country are wrong. We are in France; in the country of Ronsard, La Fontaine, and Racine. What connection is there between this country and these men, and Negro sculpture? An artist can only create in accordance with the character of his people and his time.”

Aristide Maillol

Source: Conversations with Judith Cladel (1939–1944), p. 407

“I have a weakness for Egyptian sculpture: its figures are sculptured gods, sculptured ideas. Very different in expression, Hindu sculpture is based on very similar assumptions... The oriental people are much more artistic than we. When nations grow old, their art grows complicated and soft.”

Aristide Maillol

Source: Conversations with Judith Cladel (1939–1944), p. 406