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"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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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
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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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