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The Object Of Art Is Not To Reproduce Reality, But To Create A Reality Of The Same Intensity.

If The Glass There In Front Of Me Astounds Me More Than All The Glasses I've Seen In Painting, And If I Even Think That The Greatest Architectural Wonder Of The World Couldn't Affect Me More Than This Glass, It's Really Not Worth While Going To The Indies To See Some Temple Or Other When I Have As Much And More Right In Front Of Me.

I Don't Know If I Work In Order To Do Something, Or In Order To Know Why I Can't Do What I Want To Do.

All The Sculptures Of Today, Like Those Of The Past, Will End One Day In Pieces... So It Is Important To Fashion Ones Work Carefully In Its Smallest Recess And Charge Every Particle Of Matter With Life.

In The Past I Have Never Thought About Loneliness When Working, And I Don't Think About It Now. Yet There Must Be A Reason For The Fact That So Many People Talk About It.