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I feel a burning desire to become grand in simplicity.

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

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note in her Journal, April 1903; as quoted in Expressionism, a German intuition, 1905-1920, Neugroschel, Joachim; Vogt, Paul; Keller, Horst; Urban, Martin; Dube, Wolf Dieter; (transl. Joachim Neugroschel); publisher: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1980, p. 30

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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.

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!

Now it's almost as beautiful as Christmas [then Paula suddenly fell to the floor].. ..What a pity! [her last words].

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