Chana Orloff



" At first I am attracted by the plastic decorative side, if you prefer, and the character... I would like my works to be as alive as life... "

" I start by making several drawings, very thorough, of the model. Then I pass to the sculpture, and then I dispense the model, which I do not need more,... "

" Do you think that art is as individual as one wants to suppose it is? "

" I believe in the large irresistible currents and fate. There are things that must be said. By me or by others, that does not have any importance... "


Collected by E.des Courières in Chana Orloff, Editions of the NRF, Gallimard. 1927