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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 am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.



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

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



The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to know the deep secret of what goes on within ourselves.

The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to know the deep secret of what goes on within ourselves.



My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.



Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.



There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.



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

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



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.

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.



The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.

The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.



The greatest mystery of all is reality.

The greatest mystery of all is reality.





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We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising.



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No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.



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I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas.



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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.



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