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 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…
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…
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 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…
Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man. - Naum Gabo
Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.
Art is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge. Knowledge is born of the desire to know, … - Naum Gabo
Art is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge. Knowledge is born of the desire to know, …
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 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.
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