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Quotes by Jacques Lipchitz - (8 quotes)

Jacques Lipchitz - From the Art category:

Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death. (Jacques Lipchitz)

Jacques Lipchitz - From the Cubism category:

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view. (Jacques Lipchitz)

Jacques Lipchitz - From the Greatness category:

I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all kinds of unorthodox expression, all kinds of daring in the handling of materials, and I preferred to surround myself with this type of art than with the great collectors' pieces. I had always in my mind that I was collecting for learning. (Jacques Lipchitz)

Jacques Lipchitz - From the Imagination category:

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know – it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking – that is imagination! (Jacques Lipchitz)

Jacques Lipchitz - From the Imitation category:

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. (Jacques Lipchitz)

Jacques Lipchitz - From the Interpretation category:

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. (Jacques Lipchitz)

Jacques Lipchitz - From the Methodology category:

A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with. (Jacques Lipchitz)

Jacques Lipchitz - From the Pleasure category:

...the pleasure of working with forms, with materials, and with, perhaps, the pure geometry of visible things. (Jacques Lipchitz)