Naum Gabo

Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to…

— Naum Gabo

The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image…

— Naum Gabo

Art is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge.…

— Naum Gabo

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should…

— Naum Gabo

I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness -…

— Naum Gabo

The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and…

— Naum Gabo

We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.

— Naum Gabo

If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

— Naum Gabo

We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are…

— Naum Gabo

The way of a creative mind is always positive, it always asserts; it does not know the doubts which are so characteristic…

— Naum Gabo

The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.

— Naum Gabo

Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

— Naum Gabo