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Art Quote by Franz Marc

“Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.” quote by Franz Marc — Download Open image

“Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.”

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Todayart is moving in a direction of which our fathers would never even have dreamed.We stand before the new pictures as in a dream…

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I am trying to heighten my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and…

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What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.

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Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?

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I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are... The way they…

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Religions die slowly.

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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…

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Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

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We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.

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