Naum Gabo Quote

I have come to the conclusion that a work of art restricted to what the artist has put in it is only a part of itself. It only attains full stature with what people and time make of it. It involves the whole complex of human relation to life. It is a mode of thinking, acting, perceiving and living.

Naum Gabo (1937) in a letter to Herbert Read. Cited in: Cyril Connolly (1944) Horizon: a review of literature and art. Vol 9-10. p. 58

I have come to the conclusion that a work of art restricted to what the artist has put in it is only a part of itself. It only attains full stature...

I have come to the conclusion that a work of art restricted to what the artist has put in it is only a part of itself. It only attains full stature...

I have come to the conclusion that a work of art restricted to what the artist has put in it is only a part of itself. It only attains full stature...

I have come to the conclusion that a work of art restricted to what the artist has put in it is only a part of itself. It only attains full stature...