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