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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.

— Naum Gabo to Gabo in: Andrew Lambirth (2013)

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The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute.

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.

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Science looks and observes and art see and foresees. Every great scientist has experienced a moment when the artist in him saved the scientist.

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