Occupation: Artist Birth: July 8, 1867 Death: April 22, 1945
Recently I began reading my old diaries. Back to before the war. Gradually I became very depressed. The reason for that is probably that I wrote only….
To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself..
Look at life with the eyes of a child..
I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure ar….
Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work..
My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless... It is all right with me that my work serves….
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig h….
Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness ….
I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect..
It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to f….
Old ideas die hard. We've had thousands of years of women having almost no rights. Parts of the world are in a struggle toward very basic human right….
Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed..
I was put in this world to change it..
One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved ….
If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died..
Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?.
Men without joy seem like corpses..
Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work..
There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds..
I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out..
I am in the world to change the world..