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"By new style I meant mainly technical aspects. It is impossible to experience things from an entirely new angle through will-power; it has to mature in solitude."
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"Appreciation Otto Mueller has until now been hampered by the circumstance that his timeless art provides no recognizable points of reference, has been spared the problems surrounding contemporary art and is difficult to classify under any of the categories that are so popular wit his terminology addicts."
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Otto Mueller was a German painter and printmaker of the Die Brücke expressionist movement.
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"My principle aim is to express my experience of landscape and human beings with the greatest possible simplicity."
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"I have always taken the art of the ancient Egyptians as my model, even in purely technical matters."
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"I will try to develop an entirely new style and I am sure I will succeed."
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"He himself omitted certain things in his pictures that his contemporaries deemed to be of importance, in order to capture the essence.. ..with the greatest possible simplicity."
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"[the nicest artist and his works were] always of a high standard and truly free works of art and genuine because they matured freely and purely on the basis of his philosophy of life."
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