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Jacques Lipchitz Quotes

1891–1973 Lithuania

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

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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 cited in: Bertie Charles Forbes (1992)

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

Jacques Lipchitz cited in: Bernard S. Raskas (1976)

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.

For me sculpture is divinity. This is the only answer that I could find for myself. Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death. Through art, man achieves immortality and in this immortality we find God.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer — at least the answer for myself. Art is an action against death. It is denial of death.

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.

Cubism is not a formula, it is not a school. Cubism is a philosophy, a point of view in the universe. It 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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jacques Lipchitz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.