Naum Gabo - Space Quotes

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Up to now sculptors have preferred the mass and neglected or paid little attention to such an important component of mass as space … we consider it as an absolute sculptural element. I do not hesitate to affirm that the perception of space is a primary natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our psychology

Naum Gabo

Space and time are the only forms on which life is built and hence art must be constructed... The realisation of our perceptions of the world in the forms of space and time is the only aim of our pictorial and plastic art... We renounce the thousand-year-old delusion in art that held the static rhythms as the only elements of the plastic and pictorial arts. We affirm in these arts a new element, the kinetic rhythms as the basic forms of our perception of real time.

Naum Gabo

We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.

Naum Gabo