The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
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Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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