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.
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On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.
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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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Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.
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It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!
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I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.
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