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"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."

"The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences."
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"It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see."

"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art."

"My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know."

"The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically."

"It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible."

"I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time."

"Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see."

"When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see."

"I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training."
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