Top 21 Nolde Quotes
#1. I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.
Angelina Jolie
#2. Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks ... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.
Emil Nolde
#3. Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Emil Nolde
#4. Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.
Emil Nolde
#6. Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.
Emil Nolde
#8. Worth the wait," Joe muttered and my head tipped back.
"What?"
"Every bit of it. Every day, every week, every year, every fuckin' second, buddy," he kept muttering, his eyes intense, his face serious and my breath caught, "this. All of it. Worth the wait.
Kristen Ashley
#9. The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.
Emil Nolde
#10. Yellow can express happiness, and then again, pain. There is flame red, blood red, and rose red; there is silver blue, sky blue, and thunder blue; every color harbors its own soul, delighting or disgusting or stimulating me.
Emil Nolde
#11. The human brain has the computational efficiency of 10^-26. You are an abacus of horse guts and shiny beads beside me. You do not understand. Cannot comprehend. And I have no time to bend the meat inside your skull and make it grasp the simple truth that still somehow eludes you.
Amie Kaufman
#12. This happened not once, but twice - first with Martin Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time, and then with his pupil Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. (We discuss Sartre in the next section.)
Christopher Panza
#13. We should realize that our deadliest enemies are anger and other delusions. Since these delusions are deeply ingrained mental habits, working to overcome them is not always easy.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#14. There cannot be creation without a lot of energy.
Emil Nolde
#15. What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
Emil Nolde
#16. Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.
Emil Nolde
#17. A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.
Emil Nolde
#18. If people tell you it's impossible, it's an even better reason to want to do it. People have a tendency to see the problem rather than the final result. If you treat the problems as possibilities, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing ways.
Martin Villeneuve
#19. As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.
Emil Nolde
#20. He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.
Augusten Burroughs
#21. The art of an artist must be his own art. It is ... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.
Emil Nolde
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