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I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

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There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

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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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I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

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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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One of my problems is to find the self.

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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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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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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.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Artist

Born: February 12th, 1884

Died: December 28th, 1950

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