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• Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
• All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.
• When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.
• I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.
• What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
• It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could…
• I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.
• I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
• I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real…
• I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded…
• In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.
• The greatest mystery of all is reality.

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