Height, width, and depth are ...

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.
Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.
 Max Beckmann

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Quotes from the same author

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.
 Max Beckmann
In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.
 Max Beckmann
My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.
 Max Beckmann
The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.
 Max Beckmann
Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, (Beckmann lived in the center of Amsterdam during World War 2.) an enormous old tobacco storeroom is again filled in my imagination with figures from the old days and from the new, like an ocean moved by storm and sun and always present in my thoughts. Then shapes become beings and seem comprehensible to me in the great void and uncertainty of the space which I call god.
 Max Beckmann