“Musée Maillol” Paris, 2005
“Musée Maillol” Paris, 2005
Aristide Maillol
"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 sculpter great joy. In carving, material and thought are linked by the hand alone; thus the raw material is imbued with a warmth of feeling directly drawn from the artist's nature."
Aristide Maillol
“Musée Maillol” Paris, 2005
"Detail does not interest me; what matters is the general idea... I seek architecture and volume... Sculpture is architecture, the equilibrium of masses, a composition of taste... I always start with a geometric figure, a cube, a lozenge, a triangle, because these figures hold their position in space best of all."
Aristide Maillol