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My blonde was here again today. This time with her little boy at her breast. I had to draw her as a mother, had to. That is her single true purpose. Marvelous, these gleaming white breasts in her fiery red blouse. The whole thing is so grand in its shape and color..

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

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..to have all colors deeper, more intense; |I| get quite angry at this lightness..

The intensity with which a subject is grasped (still life's, portraits, or creations of the imagination) – that is what makes for beauty in art.

I feel a burning desire to become grand in simplicity.

How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.

In her Diary (1898)

I would like to go to Paris for a week. Fifty-six Cezannes are being shown there!

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