Jacques Lipchitz Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.”
-- Jacques Lipchitz

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“All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.”
-- Jacques Lipchitz

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“Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.”
-- Jacques Lipchitz

Source : "Jacques Lipchitz: The Artist at Work". Book by Bert Van Bork, p. 199, 1966.

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“Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.”
-- Jacques Lipchitz

Source : "Living thoughts: inspiration, insight, and wisdom from sources throughout the ages" by Bernard S. Raskas, (p. 22), 1976.

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“I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all kinds of unorthodox expression, all kinds of daring in the handling of materials, and I preferred to surround myself with this type of art than with the great collectors' pieces. I had always in my mind that I was collecting for learning.”
-- Jacques Lipchitz

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“Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!”
-- Jacques Lipchitz

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“I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day these grapes appeared in a painting by Gris, this time in a bowl; and the day after, the bowl appeared in a painting by Picasso.”
-- Jacques Lipchitz

Source : Jacques Lipchitz, H. Harvard Arnason (1972). “My life in sculpture”, Viking Adult

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“A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with.”
-- Jacques Lipchitz

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“I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do.”
-- Jacques Lipchitz

Source : Cited by Bertie Charles Forbes in Forbes Magazine, Volume 149, No. 5-9, p. 424, 1992.

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“While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.”

“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.”

“To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.”

“Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.”

“You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.”

“Denis Law could dance on eggshells.”

“Our hope is we move beyond denial and into debate... If we cleaned up the air, would it really be bad for us?”

“Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.”

Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.9, Da Capo Press

“The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.”

“Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.”