Eduardo Chillida Quotes

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• Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
• I have drawn all my life, I don't know how to live without drawing.
• No one can teach that which is inside another, each person must find it on his own and find a way to express it.
• The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should…
• What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.
• Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.
• To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have…
• In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.
• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
• Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
• The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.
• A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.
• The hand has the richest articulation of space.
• The Earth is slow.

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