“The present painter is concerned not with his own feelings or with the mystery of his own personality but with the penetration into the world-mystery. His imagination is therefore attempting to dig into metaphysical secrets.”

Source: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 1. 1943-1945, p. 140

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