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"There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."

"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."

"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."
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"Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things."

"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit."

"Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them."

"Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them."

"They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things."
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