When Picasso does pure painting he is a great artist. When … - Aristide Maillol

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When Picasso does pure painting he is a great artist. When he paints as an cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the result very strong. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.

Aristide Maillol

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Aristide Maillol (8 Dec. 1861 – 27 Sept. 1944) was a French sculptor and painter. The subject of nearly all of Maillol's mature sculpture work is the female body, treated with a emphasis on stable forms.

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Alternative Names: Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol • Aristide-Joseph-Bonaventure Maillol • Maillol • a. maillol

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My sculpture is altogether different from Rodin’s.. ..In sculpture he [Rodin] always sees the flesh first. [answering his critics]

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.

I seek beauty, not character. For me portraiture and statuary are completely opposed to each other.

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