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Sometimes, from one day to the next, my vision changes because my mood has changed, and then the sculpture is modified to suit my new inspiration

It is fascinating for me to observe these modifications over which I have no control.

During the almost half century I have been a sculptor I remarked that after periods of tense and [[strikethrough]] st [[/strikethrough]] controlled work I feel a strong urge for a kind of free lyrical expansion that cannot be stopped. 

So came my "Transparents" in 1925 after a long period of controlled fight for a new [[strikethrough]]language [[/strikethrough]] [[strikethrough]] esthetique [[/strikethrough.] [[reinstate]] language [[/reinstate]]So came in 1942 my "Transparents" here in this Country, after the huge years of war and my flight from Paris 

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tr Needed a lot of work