"I consider myself responsible to the coming generations,……" — Oskar Kokoschka
"I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life."
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14 Quotes by Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka has 14 quotes on this site.
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The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we…
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Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.
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However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it…
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The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence…
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I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves.
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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…
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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…
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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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I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and…
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I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing…
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The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on…
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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…
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More Awe Quotes
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
— Walter Bagehot
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There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of…
— Theodore Bikel
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
— William Blake
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one…
— Bono
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do…
— David Bowie
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Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt…
— Sandra Bullock
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I've always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope…
— Sandra Bullock
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I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real…
— Nicolas Cage
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