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What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

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I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

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

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I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

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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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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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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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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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Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Artist

Born: February 12th, 1884

Died: December 28th, 1950

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