Aristide Maillol: Sculptural

Aristide Maillol was sculptor from France. Explore interesting quotes on sculptural.
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“My sculpture is altogether different from Rodin’s…. In sculpture he [Rodin] always sees the flesh first. [answering his critics]”

Aristide Maillol

Quote in 'Aristide Maillol', George Waldemar (1965) p. 46; as cited in 'A sculpture of interior Solitude', Angelo Carnafa, Associated University Presse, 1999, p. 166

“For my taste, sculpture should have as little movement as possible. It should not fall, and gesture, and grimace, and if one depicts movement, grimaces come too easily. Rodin himself remains quiet; he puts movement into his rendering of muscles, but the whole remains quiet and calm.”

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

Men , People , Time , Country

“The particular does not interest me; I find meaning only in a general idea. In Michelangelo one is carried away by the idea of power, the whole single-minded concept he imposed on himself. The 'Slaves' and the 'Medici tombs' are sculpture made to be seen only from one side. For me, sculpture means the block; my figure of 'France' has more than twenty different sides. When I enlarged it only four were left, and I had to rework it..”

Aristide Maillol

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

Idea

“We should try to return to our youth, to work naively; this is what I see, and it is why I have such success, because our century has tried to return to the primitive. I work as if no art had ever been made, before me, as if I had never learned anything. I am the first man to do sculpture.”

Aristide Maillol

Source: Conversations with Judith Cladel (1939–1944), pp. 406-407

Youth , Art , Learning , Success

“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

God , People , Art , Idea