Occupation: Painter Birth: December 18, 1879 Death: June 29, 1940
Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the ….
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed..
See with one eye, feel with the other..
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it b….
Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies..
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….
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….
By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately..
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn..
Colour has taken hold of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever. That is the significance of this blessed m….
From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conve….
The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture..
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….
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in n….
Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I a….
Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible..
The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experie….
Make chance essential..
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..