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"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."
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"Something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring what is within out!"
"Express your feelings, no matter what. Make your every word beautiful, bright, and lovely. Make your every thought creative, caring, and lively."
"At any moment, you can use your face to open doors of opportunity if it demonstrates interest, enthusiasm, respect, understanding, delight, agreement, and more."
"A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!"
"The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth."
"When a man talks from the heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry."
"If words are the truth, what is living for?"
"Words can be honed to crafted perfection by the finest wordsmiths. Yet, if we trust solely in the expanse of them to explain this God of ours or articulate our experience of Him, we will have brutally destroyed the very things we are attempting to explain. And if I should do that, no words can describe how badly I wish I had no words."
"I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives."
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"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."
"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."
"It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible."
"On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich."
"Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward."
"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."
"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."
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