All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
– Jacques Lipchitz
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.
– Jacques Lipchitz
Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.
– Jacques Lipchitz
Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking-that is imagination!