"If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist."

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Source : Naum Gabo (2000). “Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews”

Naum Gabo

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“Chess is a game of bad moves.”
“So you can see that if you direct that force at several objectives, it becomes divided, and each objective receives a fairly weak stimulus, which results in a slow reaction, or no reaction at all. Do you have a great, ultimate goal to reach that requires attaining lesser objectives along the way? Well then, let the many lie inactive and direct your force at the nearest or first; once you accomplish that, take up the next and so on.”
“Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.”
“Teach one girl how to code, she'll teach four. The replication effect is so powerful.”
“Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.”
“Despite the immense distance between our own solar system (including the earth) and the nearest other solar systems, a journey from one system to another is theoretically possible, once an unlimited source of power is developed.”
“The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.”
“Love is a sweet thing caught a momentand held in a golden eye.”

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