Aristide Maillol Quotes

• Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of it following one's own desire, or, sometimes, the inspiration of the material itself: this gives the sculptor great joy.

  Aristide Maillol

  Inspiration, Artist, Giving

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• I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.

  Aristide Maillol

  Sculpture, Poet

  Aristide Maillol, Waldemar George (1965). “Aristide Maillol”

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• When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.

  Aristide Maillol

  Next, Tone, Imitation

  "Artists on Art, from the 14 to 20 Centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 407, 1972.

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