Aristide Maillol Quote

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.


pp. 406-407 - Conversations with Judith Cladel (1939–1944)


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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...