Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity..

I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in the way in which….

Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men--thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall--yet wit….

I know I shall not live very long... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair..

I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour sketch should be m….

I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism..

I know I shall not live very long. But why is that so sad? Is a festival more beautiful because it lasts longer? My sensuous perceptions grow sharper….

I love color. It must submit to me. And I love art. I kneel before it, and it must become mine. Everything around me glows with passion. Every day re….

I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along that it had to come..

The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand Titian more and more ….

We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who c….

It is my experience that marriage does not make one happier. It destroys the illusion that has been the essence of one's previous existence, that the….

How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me..

Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped..

In art one is usually totally alone with oneself..