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