"There are idiots who define my work as abstract; yet what they call abstract is what is most realistic. What is real is not the appearance, but the idea, the essence of things."

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“When we are no longer young we are already dead”

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“Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god.”

“Like everything else I've ever done, there was a furious struggle to rise heavenward.”

“All my life l have sought the essence of flight. Flight — what bliss.”

“I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had slapped my hands.”

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