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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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"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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"Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation."
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"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."
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"I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky."
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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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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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"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."
Sense
"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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"Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play."
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"I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality."
Reality
"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."
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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."
People
"What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality."
Work
"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."
Painting
"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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