Aristide Maillol Quote

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


remark to his biographer Judith Cladel (1939 - 1944); as quoted in Dictionary of artists' models, Jill Berk Jiminez, Taylor and Francis 2001, p. 550 - 1885–1944


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

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

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

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