Cubism is like standing at a ...

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

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