Occupation: Painter Birth: December 18, 1879 Death: June 29, 1940
He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise..
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they f….
I still come closest to success with drawing..
I cannot be grasped in the here and now, For my dwelling place is much among the dead, As the yet unborn, Slightly closer to the heart of creation th….
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk..
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!.
Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view..
I paint in order not to cry..
One eye sees, the other feels..
Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet..
A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk..
Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see..
You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox..
Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more r….
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of ou….
It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions..
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few..
Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, r….
The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on the earth and a creature within the w….
One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side..
There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end ….