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 w… - Naum Gabo

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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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About Naum Gabo

Naum Gabo (August 5, 1890 – August 23, 1977) was a prominent Russian sculptor in the Constructivism movement and a pioneer of kinetic art.

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Alternative Names: Naum Neemia Pevsner Naum Pevzner Naum Borisovich Pevzner Nathanael Neemia Pevsner Naum Abramovic Pevzner Neemija Berkovic Pevzner Nehemiah Borisovich Pevzner Nahum Gabo Naum Abramowitsch Pevsner
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More often than not, [people] expect a painting to speak to them in terms other than visual, preferably in words, whereas when a painting or a sculpture needs to be supplemented and explained by words it means either that it has not fulfilled its function or that the public is deprived of vision,

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

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