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 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 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

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

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

- 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.

- 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.

- 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…

- 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…

- Paula Modersohn-Becker