Imagination is a very precise thing, you know — it is not f… - Jacques Lipchitz

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Imagination is a very precise thing, you know — it is not fantasy. Remember, the other day I gave you the example of what I mean, what the difference between fantasy and imagination is. I gave you the example of the man who invented the of the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking.

Jacques Lipchitz

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About Jacques Lipchitz

(22 August [O.S. 10 August] 1891 – May 16, 1973) was an American cubist sculptor.

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Alternative Names: Zák Lifshits • Jakoff Lipschitz • Chaïm Jacob Lipchitz • Žak Lifshits • Jacques Lipschitz • Jakoff Lipchitz • Chaim Jacob Lipchitz • Žak Lipšic • Chaim Jakob Lipsic • Zak Lifshits • lipschitz • Lipchitz • jacques lipschitz • Jakub Lipszyc

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Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

By the early 1920s I knew that I needed to move beyond the simple cubist vocabulary I had learned and to find a new content, a new personal expression.Abstraction was never enough for me.

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