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“The hand has the richest articulation of space.”
“Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.”
“In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.”
“Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.”
“Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.”
“What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.”
“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 looked and I hope I have seen.”
“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.”