Franz Marc Quotes

Religions Die Slowly.

Who Is Able To Paint The Existence Of A Dog As Picasso Paints The Existence Of A Cubic Shape?

Whenever We Have Seen A Crevice In The Crust Of Convention, We Have Called Attention To It, Because We Have Hoped For A Force Underneath, Which Will Someday Come To Light.

Serious Art Has Been The Work Of Individual Artists Whose Art Has Had Nothing To Do With 'style' Because They Were Not In The Least Connected With The Style Or The Needs Of The Masses. Their Works Arose Rather In Defiance Of Their Times.

Todayart Is Moving In A Direction Of Which Our Fathers Would Never Even Have Dreamed.we Stand Before The New Pictures As In A Dream And We Hear The Apocalyptic Horsemen In The Air.

Traditions Are Lovely Thingsto Create Traditions, That Is, Not To Live Off Them.

Like Everything Genuine, Its Inner Life Guarantees Its Truth. All Works Of Art Created By Truthful Minds Without Regard For The Work's Conventional Exterior Remain Genuine For All Times...

Art Will Liberate Itself From The Needs And Desires Of Men. No Longer Will We Paint A Forest Ora Horseas We Like Oras Theyappear To Us, But As They Really Are.

The Great Artists Do Not Seek Their Forms In The Midst Of The Past, But Take The Deepest Soundings They Can Of The Genuine, Profoundest Of Their Age.

Today We Are Searching For Things In Nature That Are Hidden Behind The Veil Of Appearance... We Look For And Paint This Inner, Spiritual Side Of Nature.

I Am Trying To Intensify 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.

What Appears Spectral Today Will Be Natural Tomorrow.