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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Pen Names: Pevsner, Naum Neemia • Pevzner, Naum Borisovich
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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It needs a poet like Schwitters to show us that unobserved elements of beauty are strewn and spread all around us and we can find them everywhere in the portentous as well as in the insignificant, if only we care to look, to choose and to fit them into a comely order.
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