"I used to be too subjective, and I……" — Oskar Kokoschka
"I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life."
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14 Quotes by Oskar Kokoschka
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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 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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I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul…
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When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
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