Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

- Franz Marc

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

- Franz Marc

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of natu…

- Franz Marc

Religions die slowly.

- Franz Marc

Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

- Franz Marc

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

- Franz Marc

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional e…

- Franz Marc

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true …

- Franz Marc

I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are... The way they themselves look at the world …

- Franz Marc