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It was in mid-summer [1906]. The colors of the flowers attracted me irresistibly and almost sudden I was painting. My first small gardens paintings were born.

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Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

How glad I am to be almost alone as an artist among artists, with the whole swarm of artists somewhere else.

..colors are my notes for fashioning sounds and chords with and against one another.

Dualism is particularly important in both my paintings and my graphics.

It [the city Berlin] stinks of perfume, they have water on their brains and they live as food for bacilli and shamelessly like dogs.

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