« And as the soul is that which does not appear The most perfect soul is the one that never appears which is made with the body, The absolute body of things, The completely real existence, without shadows, without me, The complete and absolute coincidence of a thing with itself. » (Fernando Pessoa)
His works were considered as degenerate art by the Nazi regime and were banned. At the end of the Second World War he produced an experimental report entitled Dresdner Totentanz (Dance of Death in Dresden), which condemned the bombings of the city