The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.
What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work. - Emil Nolde
What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
- Emil Nolde
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. - Emil Nolde
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal. - Emil Nolde
Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.
Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them. - Emil Nolde
Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.
Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death. - Emil Nolde
Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.
As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually… - Emil Nolde
As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually…
Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greek… - Emil Nolde
Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greek…
The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones … - Emil Nolde
The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones …
There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus… - Emil Nolde
There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus…
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