Top 30 Kokoschka Quotes
#1. A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together.
Eric Kandel
#2. Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended, it seems that they no longer have any essential existence except in the visions in me.
Oskar Kokoschka
#4. True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.
Oskar Kokoschka
#5. Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.
Erik Spiekermann
#6. I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.
Oskar Kokoschka
#7. Hell, yea, I want something. I want you to stop avoiding me.
Maya Banks
#8. However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.
Oskar Kokoschka
#9. 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.
Oskar Kokoschka
#10. You're so immature." "Blue hair. That's all I'm saying." "Bite me, dead girl." I showed fang and winked at her. "Don't tempt me, witch.
Chloe Neill
#11. 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.
Oskar Kokoschka
#12. I wanted them to be terrible, hideous monsters. But they aren't. They are petty men who ruin lives and don't even notice.
Pierce Brown
#13. Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.
Don Yaeger
#14. 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
#16. Wouldn't it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, 'Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and at the cast party, all animals got a belly belly belly rub.'
Elayne Boosler
#18. Courage is not how a man stands or falls, but how he gets back up again
John L. Lewis
#19. Being in a rock band is just an excuse not to get a job
Billy Corgan
#20. At first I was blogging everyday, but I don't do that anymore. It varies; sometimes I'll write these little essays and other times political commentaries. Other times it'll just be new work that I'm doing.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#21. The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.
Oskar Kokoschka
#22. Open your eyes at last and see ... now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it,just pictures
Oskar Kokoschka
#23. What it means to serve Him. I am writing with the hope that as you cry and laugh with my family you will
Katie J. Davis
#24. Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts are put together to form the whole is more important than any of the parts taken in isolation.
Bill Hillier
#25. I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves.
Oskar Kokoschka
#26. All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.
Oskar Kokoschka
#27. How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.
Oskar Kokoschka
#28. The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our inner voice.
Oskar Kokoschka
#29. Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read?
Grace Metalious
#30. Coaching is one of the most effective leadership styles that can transform, empower and unlock people's potential. Ask more, advice less, elevate your impact forever.
Farshad Asl
