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" Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. "
Realization
Play
Creative
" 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. "
Myself
Space
Three
" I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. "
Reality
Invisible
I Am
" I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality. "
Love
Hate
Believe
" I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. "
Believe
I Believe
Love
" I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery. "
Loathe
Sign
Slavery
" 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. "
I Can
Painting
Need
" I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. "
Things
Real
Political
" I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones. "
Wonderful
Think
Space
" 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! "
Enjoyment
Wild
Me
" 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. "
Hill
Spring
Small
" One of my problems is to find the self. "
Self
Problems
Find
" 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. "
Sun
Sky
Shooting
" Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement. "
Possible
Painting
Me
" 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. "
Soul
Painting
Man
" Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained. "
Again
Us
Ourselves
" There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality. "
Than
More
Hate
" 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. "
Some
Questions
You
" What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. "
Want
Idea
Behind
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