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 consciously puts convention aside.
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… - Paula Modersohn-Becker
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…
- Paula Modersohn-Becker
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… - Paula Modersohn-Becker
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…
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… - Paula Modersohn-Becker
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 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. - Paula Modersohn-Becker
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.
I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism. - Paula Modersohn-Becker
I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.
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. - Paula Modersohn-Becker
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.
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. - Paula Modersohn-Becker
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… - Paula Modersohn-Becker
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…
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… - Paula Modersohn-Becker
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…
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