Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended, it seems that they no lon…

- Oskar Kokoschka

I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the …

- Oskar Kokoschka

I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

- Oskar Kokoschka

The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.

- Oskar Kokoschka

Open your eyes at last and see... now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it, just pictures.

- Oskar Kokoschka

All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of ex…

- Oskar Kokoschka

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

- Oskar Kokoschka

True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.

- Oskar Kokoschka

The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essen…

- Oskar Kokoschka