Aristide Maillol - Young Quotes

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Art is complex, I said to Rodin, who smiled because he felt that I was struggling with nature.... the beauty of Rodin's art is.... in the thoughts he embodied. As for me, I just take a walk on the beach. A young girl appears. From that girl walking there emanates a soul. That is That is at I want to give my statue, that thing alive, yet immaterial. In composing the figure of one young girl I must give the impression that there are all young girls. From the spirit, my feeling passes into my fingers

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