Occupation: Artist Birth: July 8, 1867 Death: April 22, 1945
When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart..
I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary..
There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case. Genius can probably run on ahea….
It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible..
Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment..
For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of t….
The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of the nati….
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….
How long were the stretches of toilsome tacking back and forth, of being blocked, of being thrown back again and again. But all that was annulled by ….
As in everything else, I find that age is not good for much, that one becomes deafer and less sensitive. Also, the higher up the mountain you climb, ….
I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be….
No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes..