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

— Max Beckmann On my Painting (1938)

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Today I wanted to die of weakness and melancholy again.

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.

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.

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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