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• You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the…
• If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and…
• Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.
• Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies…
• We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.
• This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.
• To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.
• In the beginning was the image.
• If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.
• True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from…
• The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.
• A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.

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