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

The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our in…

- 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

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

However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.

- 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

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

- 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 try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or c…

- Oskar Kokoschka