Franz Marc on Life
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Franz Marc, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Franz Marc, entry #127845: "The impure men and women who surrounded me , did not arouse any of my real feelings; while the natural feeling for life possessed by animals set in vibration everything good in me…"
Attributed to Franz Marc, entry #96342: "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…"
4 Quotes by Franz Marc on Life
"The impure men and women who surrounded me , did not arouse any of my real feelings; while the natural feeling for life possessed by animals set in vibration everything good in me. ."
"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, that is, the abstract."
"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."
"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, when not tittering and scraping their chairs, so it was hard to follow the music. Can you imagine a music in which tonality is completely suspended? I was constantly reminded of Kandinsky's large composition which also permits no trace of tonality.. ..and also of Kandinsky's 'jumping spots' in hearing this music , which allows each tone sounded to stand on its own . Schönberg proceeds from the principle that the concepts of consonance and dissonance do not exist at all. A so-called dissonance is only a mere remote consonance – an idea which now occupies me constantly while painting.."