Stone Formed by Human Hand

     When I exhibited my first concrete reliefs, I put out a little
manifesto declaring the art of the bourgeois to be sanctioned lunacy.
Especially these naked men, women, and children in stone or bronze,
exhibited in public squares, gardens, and forest clearings, who
untiringly dance, chase butterflies, shoot arrows, hold out apples,
blow the flute, are the perfect expression of a mad world.  These
mad figures must no longer sully nature.  Today, as in the days of
the early Christians, the essential must become known.  The artist
must let his work create itself directly.  Today we are no longer
concerned with subtleties.  My reliefs and sculptures fit naturally
into nature.  On closer examination however they reveal that they
were formed by human hand, and so I have named certain of them:
Stone Formed by Human Hand.

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