Oskar Kokoschka

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

— Oskar Kokoschka

I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

— Oskar Kokoschka

The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was not…

— Oskar Kokoschka

The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen…

— Oskar Kokoschka

I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in…

— Oskar Kokoschka

The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is…

— Oskar Kokoschka

Open your eyes at last and see...now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it,just…

— Oskar Kokoschka

Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my…

— Oskar Kokoschka

However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then…

— Oskar Kokoschka

There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings…

— Oskar Kokoschka

How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt…

— Oskar Kokoschka

Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended,…

— Oskar Kokoschka

I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do…

— Oskar Kokoschka

All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental…

— Oskar Kokoschka

The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception...…

— Oskar Kokoschka

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my…

— Oskar Kokoschka

True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.

— Oskar Kokoschka