Naum Gabo - Artist Quotes

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There is no indication of success up to now in the bringing together of art and science. To achieve success the artist must be spiritually at home in the field of science so he can think and feel in the same way as the scientist. A spiritual union, not a technical one, is requested.

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Science looks and observes and art see and foresees. Every great scientist has experienced a moment when the artist in him saved the scientist.

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I realized that the image I had been given by my teachers, the scientists... by their way of looking at Nature, was just another stage setting with all the magnificence and ingenuity that the genius of any artist produces in a work of art. I realized that in my scientific journey I had been under the power of a magic spell of a work of art whose reality was just as true as the verity of the image in an artist's vision.

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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.

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If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

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