"I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The……" — Oskar Kokoschka

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

— Oskar Kokoschka

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14 Quotes by Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we…
Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.
However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it…
The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence…
All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of…
Open your eyes at last and see...now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words…
True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.
I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and…
I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing…
The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on…
How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's…
I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul…

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