I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.
From Max Beckmann
I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.
Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
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.
There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
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.
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.
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!
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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