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Quotes from Sculpture: Carving and Construction in Space — Naum Gabo

1890–1977 Russia

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The growth of new ideas is more difficult and lengthy the deeper they are rotted in life. Resistance to them is the more obsitnate and exasperated the more persistent their growth is.

Sculpture: Carving and Construction in Space (1937)

..adding Space perception to the perception of Masses, emphasizing it and forming it, we enrich the expression of Mass.. ..through the contrast between them whereby Mass retains its solidity and Space its extension.

Sculpture: Carving and Construction in Space (1937)

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