Franz Marc

"Who are these 'savages' in Germany? For the most part they are both well-known and widely disparaged: Die Brücke in Dresden, the 'Neue Sezession' in Berlin, and 'Die Neue Vereinigung' in Munich."

"The editors of the Blaue Reiter will now be the starting point for new exhibitions.. .We will try to become the center of the new movement. The association may assume there the role of the new ."

"I can in no other way overcome my imperfections and the imperfections of life than by translating the meaning of my existence into the spiritual, into that which is independent of the mortal body, tha…"

"We are also convinced that we can already proclaim the first signs of the time. The first works of a new era are tremendously difficult to define. Who can see clearly what their aim is and what is to …"

"The people itself has always given art its essential style. The artist merely clarifies and fullfils the will of the people. But when the people does not know what it wants, or worst of all, wants not…"

"It is like a presentiment of the war, terrible and gripping; I can hardly realize that I painted it myself . In the hazy photograph, at any rate, it has an indefinable reality that quite made my flesh…"

"A musical event in Münich has brought me a great dolt.. ..an evening of chamber-music by Arnold Schoenberg .. ..the audience behaved loutishly, like school brats, sneezing and clearing their throats, …"

"We refer with pleasure and with steadfastness to the case of El Greco, because the glory of this painter is closely tied to the evolution of our new perceptions on art."