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"One of my problems is to find the self."
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"No one could have nicer sisters. No sibling problems there."

"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."

"On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier."

"Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well."

"There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution."

"It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually."

"My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions."

"You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems."

"You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."

"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."

"Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play."

"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."

"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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