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"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."
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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
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"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body."
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"I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?"
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"Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much."
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"I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate."
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"In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long."
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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."
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"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."
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"The body has a mind of its own."
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"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."
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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."
Art
"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."
God
"There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning."
Art
"Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them."
Mind
"Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave."
Work
"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."
Body
"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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"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."
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"Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action."
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