“Negro art contains more ideas than Greek art. Its strange inventiveness of form is astonishing, and its imagination and extraordinary sense of decoration are difficult to explain. We dare not take such liberties; but the Negroes have succeeded. We are too much the subjects of our own past..”

— Aristide Maillol

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

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sculptor from France 1861–1944

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