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If one perceives of it all – the entire War or even life as a whole – as a scene in the theater of 'infinity', many things are much easier to bear.

— Max Beckmann

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Today I wanted to die of weakness and melancholy again.

Space and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

On my Painting (1938)

Afternoon with Q. [Quappi, his second wife] on foot, looking for butter and coals – in vain.

I want to stay here [Amsterdam] for now, then maybe move on to Paris later on. For the interim, Amsterdam is not bad.

To me the most important thing [in a picture] is roundness captured in height and breadth. Roundness in the plane, depth in the feeling of the plane.

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