“w:Donatello's art does not come out of nature, it belongs to the studio. He exaggerates to make it lifelike. His weeping children grimace frightfully... When movement is excessive it is frozen: it no longer represents life.”

— Aristide Maillol

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

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sculptor from France 1861–1944

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