Oskar Kokoschka

(1886–1980) Painter United Kingdom

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Oskar Kokoschka was a painter from the United Kingdom, best known for Oskar Kokoschka.

Quick Facts About Oskar Kokoschka

Born: March 1, 1886
Died: February 22, 1980
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Painter
Notable works: Oskar Kokoschka
Known for: Prometheus, The Bride of the Wind, Self-Portrait of a Degenerate Artist

About Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright and teacher, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expressionist movement.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Erasmus Prize Lichtwark Prize Lovis Corinth Prize Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order

Quotes by 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…

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Essentials

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

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Exterior

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

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Art

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

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Beauty

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

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Confession

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

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Answers

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

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Awe

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

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Boundless

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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…

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Book

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

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Art

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

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Closed door

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

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American express

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

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Cease

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

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Children

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

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Dimensions

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

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Art of living

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Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

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Awareness

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