"The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves."

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

Naum Gabo

#Nature Quotes #Lying Quotes #Creating Quotes

“The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.”
“Your Nafs is just like a suckling child. If you do not take the pains to wean him, he will yearn for his mother's breast even when he's grown up. Therefore you should not try to satisfy your lust by indulging in sins. This will only increase the desire for more sins. The same is the case with the disease of gluttony. The more a person eats, the more his hunger increases.”
“I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.”
“No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible. Sometimes it's even better.”
“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
“Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it.”
“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.”
“Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.”

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