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"I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality."
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"The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other."
"Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality."
"To change the reality, change the perception but not the reality."
"Beautiful trees sometimes bear bitter fruit."
"The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks."
"Life can only be experienced."
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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."
"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."
"Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life."
"Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play."
"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."
"It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!"
"I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting."
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