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 Donatello, but never of della Quercia. Yet della Qercia invented Michelangelo's style before Michelangelo.


p. 408 - Conversations with Judith Cladel (1939–1944)

Aristide Maillol Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...