Expressionism

Expressionism is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.

42 thinkers1,023 quotesTop field: Art

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."

Vincent van Gogh· b. 1853View quote →

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"pdf - selected quotes of Vincent van Gogh, by the former director of the MoMA; Alfred H. Barr, 1935"

"They hover before me now in drifting color, more beautiful than I can possibly paint them.. ..I yearn for the day when I will have found my color harmonies, my harmonies."

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Paula Modersohn-Becker

Art

Expressionism

1876–1907

"I would like to go to Paris for a week. Fifty-six Cezannes are being shown there!"

53 quotes

🇫🇷Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Literature

Expressionism

1894–1961

"Politics has putrified mankind more profoundly in the last three centuries than in the whole of pre-history. We were more united in the middle ages than we are today; then a common spirit took form."

"One does not paint for design students or historians but for human beings, and the reaction in human terms is the only thing that is really satisfactory to the artist."

"I had the feeling that there was a dimension of reality that had not been dealt with in art: the dimension of ugliness."

"images of graphic and painting art of Gabriële Münter, in Schlossmuseum Murnau"

"Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind."

"selection pictures of Jawlensky's painting art, on Wikiart"

"A Clement Greenberg tribute page, with a selection of articles by and about him"

16 quotes

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Art

Expressionism

1880–1938

"though strange to the ordinary man, was not meant to shock, it was a pure and simple compulsion to integrate art and life.."

"'Lovis Corinth, Autobiographic Writings', Part Two - Review with quotes by Francesco Mazzaferro"

"What a variety of shapes exists in the lithograph when one prepares the stone for printing, etches it, and prints oneself. Above all, one must do the printing oneself!"

".Now nicely going on to work and much more free, and in particular more flowing. I hope to grow away from that rigid stuff."

"The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work."

"The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings. ."

"I am sure of one thing: many silent readers and young people full of energy will secretly be grateful to us, will be fired by enthusiasm for this book and will judge the world in accordance with it."

"You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted."

"'Perfection Is in the Mind', interview with Agnes Martin by Joan Simon, 1995/96"

"Brücke will remain in the inner sense; only the outer organizational thing should be dissolved."

"an eight minute film created by Studio Louter, using Salomon's original goauches, for the Jewish Historical Museum"

"I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art."

"A virtual exhibit on the life of Emily Carr"

"My principle aim is to express my experience of landscape and human beings with the greatest possible simplicity."

"many free images of Kruyder's paintings in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam"

"I thought I should make something – I felt it would be so easy – it would take form under my hands like magic."

"Werkman Archive of Groningen Museum - many text sources about Werkman, but most are in Dutch!"

"The black snow that runs from the rooftops;"

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Marianne von Werefkin

Art

Expressionism

1860–1938

"..he is the creation of my life, my ultimate goal, my torture."

29 quotes

🇭🇺Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka

Art

Expressionism

1853–1919

"Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone."

"one day , Kirchner brought with him a volume from some bookstore with pictures of Meier-Graefe about the modern French artists. We were enthralled."

"Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air."

"My plays are not didactic... they simply express my attitude to my world."

"I am only interested in painting the actual person; in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong."

"I have been in Munich this week, and got to know the whole 'Neue Künstlervereinigung' at Tannhauser's – Jawlensky, Kandinsky etc. For Munich they are very, very good, I was interested."

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🇺🇸Jean-Michel Basquiat

Art

Expressionism

1960–1988

"…I don't think it's good to be honest in interviews, I think it's better to lie."

"Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being.. every other impression becomes, for him, an inner expression."

"Sculpture is the essence of things, the essence of nature, that which is perpetually human."

Notable Quotes

"Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."

— Vincent van Gogh, b. 1853View →

"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

— Vincent van Gogh, b. 1853View →

"They hover before me now in drifting color, more beautiful than I can possibly paint them.. ..I yearn for the day when I will have found my color harmonies, my harmonies."

— Emil Nolde, b. 1867View →

"I am sure of one thing: many silent readers and young people full of energy will secretly be grateful to us, will be fired by enthusiasm for this book and will judge the world in accordance with it."

— Franz Marc, b. 1880View →

"If I should find something it will probably be a position between clergy man and missionary in the suburbs of London among the working people. Do not speak to anybody about it yet."

— Vincent van Gogh, b. 1853View →

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