“At heart, I have always been a carpenter, who, instead of making a table or a door, was led to carve images in wood.”

— Ossip Zadkine

as quoted in 'Wooden Sculptures' http://www.zadkine.paris.fr/en/collections/collections-sculptures/wooden-sculptures, Musée Zadkine <br class="br">Musée Zadkine: it was through wood that Zadkine came to sculpture, after being initiated in the techniques of carving by a maternal uncle. <br class="br">undated quotes

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