“God, to me, it seems
is a verb,
not a noun,
proper or improper.”
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
No More Secondhand God (1963)
1960s
“A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.”
as quoted in "It is", No.4, Autumn, 1959 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79463183&referer=brief_results Magazine for Abstract Art, Second Half Publishing Co., New York pp. 29,30 <br class="br">1950 - 1971
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