Der Blaue Reiter Quotes

#1. The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings. (in discussion with Franz Marc who demanded in 'Der Blaue Reiter' around 1912 a new art, in relation to its own - changing - time).

Max Beckmann

#2. Ironically, the worship of of death as a strategy for coping with our underlying fear of death's power does not truly give us solace. It is deeply anxiety producing. The more we watch spectacles of death, of random violence and cruelty, the more afraid we become in our daily lives.

Bell Hooks

#3. What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.

Jon Heder

#4. As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.

Robert Wise

#5. Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

David Low

#6. From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#7. Her words were like tinfoil; they shone and they covered things up.

Helen Cross

#8. I don't feel naked around you anymore.

Xiaolu Guo