I sat in my studio and painted, and did not need Nature as a prompter [after 1921, when he painted the series 'Abstrakter Kopf' / 'Abstract Head']. I only had to immerse myself in myself, pray, and prepare my soul to a state of religious awareness. I painted many, many 'Faces'.
Life Memories (1938), p. 186
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