Carolina QuotesWere I to concentrate exclusively on the body of Prometheus, I would be seriously limiting the scope of my rendering of the demigod; but because I concentrate also on the myth of Prometheus, on all that the great poets have written about him, I expand the meaning of the demigod's physical form and try to communicate.. ..the basic message of the legend of Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods and taught man to cook his foods, to smelt metal ore and to forge his tools and weapons. [c. 1960]
Ossip Zadkine Connected to the Carolinas
Source
pp. 153-154
- work
- Dialogues – conversations with.., quotes, c. 1960
- year
- 1960
- locator
- pp. 153-154
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“Were I to concentrate exclusively on the body of Prometheus,…” Ossip Zadkine. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-19A88E062B. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/19a88e062b
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My huge monument to the bombing of Rotterdam [in 1940, by the German aircraft], for instance, was the third and final version of this figure. Once the model had been accepted in principle and the scale agreed on, I began working on a new version of it, conceiving it to a great extent in terms of the effects of the changes of lighting in which such a monument would been seen in the open air. [c. 1960]
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A cry of horror against the inhuman brutality of this act of tyranny.