Top 27 Modersohn Becker Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Modersohn Becker

#1. Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

Georg Baselitz

#2. I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

Marjane Satrapi

#3. I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#4. Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#5. I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in the way in which I draw my nudes here in Paris, more original and at the same time sensitively observed.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#6. People try to start things with me because of who I am, and I know that means I have to stay away. Its definitely racial.

Allen Iverson

#7. I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour sketch should be made exactly as one has perceived things in nature. But personal feeling is the main thing.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#8. We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional ... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#9. If you can't be with the side you want, work to fix the side you're with.

C.T. Phipps

#10. The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole.

Moshe Katsav

#11. Already I've seen that when you're pulled away from your normal routine, it's as though air and sunlight come into your brain and do a little housecleaning.

Elizabeth Berg

#12. I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along that it had to come.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#13. PRINCIPLES ARE LIKE THE LIGHTHOUSES. THEY STAND STILL. SO WE DON'T LOSE OUR WAY.

Kenan Crnkic

#14. Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind ... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men
thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall
yet with the most delicate nerves and fibers in them.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#15. Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life.

Norman Lindsay

#16. I know I shall not live very long ... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#17. How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#18. If you can see it, and believe it, it is a LOT easier to achieve it

Oprah Winfrey

#19. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning

F Scott Fitzgerald

#20. When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up.

Lu Yen-hsun

#21. In art one is usually totally alone with oneself.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#22. When my mom was alive, she read me stories every night. "Use your imagination, Lorelei," she'd say, "and your whole life can be a fairy tale." I wanted that to be true. But I should have paid more attention to the fairy tales.

Nikki Loftin