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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.

— Jacques Lipchitz

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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.

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.

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