Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
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Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.
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I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.
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One of my problems is to find the self.
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Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.
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I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
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What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
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I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.
