"I am trying to heighten my feeling for……" — Franz Marc
"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 of blood in nature, in animals, in the air - trying to make it all into a picture, with new movements and with colours that reduce our old easel paintings to absurdity."
—
Franz Marc
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
13 Quotes by Franz Marc
Franz Marc has 13 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to…
-
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…
-
Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and…
-
I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they…
-
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…
-
We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.
-
Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for…
-
Religions die slowly.
-
The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they…
-
Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal…
See all 13 quotes by Franz Marc »
More Absurdity Quotes
This quote is filed under Absurdity Quotes,
one of 352 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
— Joseph Addison
-
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
— Annie Besant
-
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
— Ambrose Bierce
-
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of…
— Samuel Butler
-
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out…
— Lord Byron
-
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
— Albert Camus
-
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe…
— Albert Camus
-
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
-
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
— Christopher Hitchens
-
The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by…
— Norman Angell
-
When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and…
— Sigmund Freud
-
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
— Thomas Jefferson
See all 352 Absurdity Quotes »