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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."
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"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."
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"I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that."
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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."
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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."
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