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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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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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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."
"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones."
"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."
"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."
"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."
"Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play."
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