Aristide Maillol citáty
Aristide Maillol
Datum narození: 8. prosinec 1861
Datum úmrtí: 27. září 1944
Aristide Maillol byl francouzský sochař a malíř katalánského původu.
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Emil Filla1
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Jan Bauch10
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Frederick John Kiesler1
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Ludvík IX. Francouzský1
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Jean-Louis Tauran2
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Josef Václav Myslbek1
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Auguste Rodin12
francouzský sochařCitáty Aristide Maillol
„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
p. 407
„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
pp. 406-407
„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
p. 406
„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
p. 407
„I seek beauty, not character. For me portraiture and statuary are completely opposed to each other.“
— Aristide Maillol
remark to his biographer Judith Cladel (1939 - 1944); as quoted in Dictionary of artists’ models, Jill Berk Jiminez, Taylor and Francis 2001, p. 550
„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
„He [ Renoir; Maillol made his bust] was very interested, watching me do his bust. He said to me: 'Every time you touch it, it becomes more alive.“
— Aristide Maillol
Quote in Maillol's letter, 14th May 1887; as cited in Renoir – his life and work, Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates /Thames and Hudson Ltd, London 1975, p. 245-246
„Mademoiselle, I am told that you look like a Renoir and Maillol [as a model]. I would be happy with a Renoir.“
— Aristide Maillol
in his letter (1939) to his late model Dina Vierny; as quoted in Dictionary of artists’ models, Jill Berk Jiminez, Taylor and Francis 2001, p. 550
„A [figure] interests me when I can bring architecture out of it.“
— Aristide Maillol
as quoted in ’A sculpture of interior Solitude’, by Angelo Carnafa, Associated University Presse, 1999, p. 167
