"The awareness of imagery is part of living...……" — Oskar Kokoschka

The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives… - Oskar Kokoschka

"The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images."

— 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…
I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves.
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…
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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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
Patience is the companion of wisdom. — Saint Augustine
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn… — Richard Bach
Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. — Arthur Balfour
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. — Charles Baudelaire
You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my… — Scott Adams
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. — Walter Benjamin
Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father… — Ezra Taft Benson
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. — William Blake
The eye altering, alters all. — William Blake

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