We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images, not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities.
I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness - to bring our life and a… - Naum Gabo
I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness - to bring our life and a…
- Naum Gabo
The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in… - Naum Gabo
The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in…
Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy. - Naum Gabo
Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.
We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space. - Naum Gabo
We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.
If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist. - Naum Gabo
If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.
The way of a creative mind is always positive, it always asserts; it does not know the doubts which are so characteristic of the scientific mind. - Naum Gabo
The way of a creative mind is always positive, it always asserts; it does not know the doubts which are so characteristic of the scientific mind.
We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images, not in Pla… - Naum Gabo
We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images, not in Pla…
Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man. - Naum Gabo
Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.
The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content… - Naum Gabo
The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content…
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