Franz Marc Quotes

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• 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,…
• What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.
• Whenever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for a force underneath,…
• 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…
• 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…
• Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?
• Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least…
• We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.
• I am trying to heighten my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and flow…
• Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain…
• Religions die slowly.
• 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…
• Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the…

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