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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.

— Naum Gabo Naum Gabo (1937)

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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.

Sculpture: Carving and Construction in Space (1937)

We take four planes and we construct with them the same volume as of four tons of mass.

Either build functional houses and bridges or create pure art or both. Don't confuse one with the other. Such art is not pure constructive art, but merely an imitation of the machine.

Art and Science are two different streams which rise from the same creative force and flow into the same ocean of the common culture, but the currents of these two streams flow in different directions.

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