Max Beckmann Letters to a Woman Painter (1948),

The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to know the deep secret of what goes on within ourselves. For the visible world in combination with our inner selves provides the realm where we may seek infinitely for the individuality of our own souls. In the best art this search has always existed. It has been strictly speaking, a search for something abstract. And today, it remains urgently necessary to express even more strongly one‚s own individuality.

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