Aristide Maillol citáty
Aristide Maillol
Datum narození: 8. prosinec 1861
Datum úmrtí: 27. září 1944
Aristide Maillol byl francouzský sochař a malíř katalánského původu.
Podobní autoři
Jean Arp5
sochař, malíř, básník a výtvarník abstraktní
Emil Filla1
český malíř a sochař
Jan Bauch10
český malíř
Frederick John Kiesler1
rakouský architekt a sochař
Auguste Rodin12
francouzský sochař
Josef Václav Myslbek1
český sochař
Constantin Brancusi3
francouzský umělec
Jean Marais2
francouzský herec a divadelní režisérCitáty Aristide Maillol
„Sochařství je architektura, rovnováha hmot a uměřená kompozice. Vycházím vždy z geometrického obrazce: čtverce, kosočtverce nebo trojúhelníku, protože tyto formy působí v prostoru nejlépe.“
— Aristide Maillol
Source: [Pijoan, José, Dějiny umění 11, Knižní klub, 2000, 80-242-0449-25, 225, česky]
„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
„Art is complex, I said to Rodin, who smiled because he felt that I was struggling with nature.... the beauty of Rodin’s art is.... in the thoughts he embodied. As for me, I just take a walk on the beach. A young girl appears. From that girl walking there emanates a soul. That is That is at I want to give my statue, that thing alive, yet immaterial. In composing the figure of one young girl I must give the impression that there are all young girls. From the spirit, my feeling passes into my fingers“
— Aristide Maillol
Quote in 'Aristide Maillol', ed. Andrew C. Ritchie, Albright Art Gallery N. Y. 1945, p. 31 + 45; as cited by Angelo Carnafa, in 'A sculpture of interior Solitude', Associated University Presse, 1999, p. 167
„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
„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
p. 407
„The immobility that the artist creates is not at all that of the photograph. A worth of art contains latent life, possibility of movement; a grimace made eternal does not represent life. One always talks of w:Donatello, but never of della Quercia. Yet della Qercia invented w:Michelangelo’s style before Michelangelo.“
— Aristide Maillol
p. 408
„The first thing that strikes [one] in Cézanne is not apples, but balance of tones. With elements drawn from nature, what did [Cézanne] attempt? To create, to arouse powerful feeling, to awaken in the hearts of men that which is eternal in men.“
— Aristide Maillol
in a writing of Maillol, quoted in 'Aristide Maillol', ed. Andrew C. Ritchie, Albright Art Gallery N Y 1945, p. 31; as quoted by Angelo Carnafa, in 'A sculpture of interior Solitude', Associated University Presse, 1999, p. 168
