Occupation: Painter Birth: December 18, 1879 Death: June 29, 1940
The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment..
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beau….
It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest..
My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues ….
Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer..
Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible..
It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance pr….
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now..
A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same ….
In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when….
Becoming is superior to being..
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical comp….
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn..
To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers..
It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being..
My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will..
We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as well calm down….
A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it; then a leaping….
First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for….
Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones….
The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture..