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I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.

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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

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If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.

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In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

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It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

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My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

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On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.

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Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

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Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

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When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Artist

Born: March 19th, 1888

Died: March 26th, 1976

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