All my life as an artist I ... by Jacques Lipchitz, a Polish Sculptor

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“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.”

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Jacques Lipchitz

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Name: Jacques Lipchitz

Nationality: Polish

Date of Birth: Aug 22, 1891

Date of Death: May 16, 1973

Profession: Sculptor

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