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" I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery. "
Max Beckmann
Loathe
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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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" 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. "
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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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" I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. "
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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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" One of my problems is to find the self. "
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" Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. "
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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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Spring
Small
" 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. "
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