Oskar Kokoschka Quotes

#1. I gripped her, drowning, and I loved
her more than anything on this wide
green earth.

Kate Quinn

#2. True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.

Oskar Kokoschka

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Stop turning every others battle into yours. Sometimes amidst of all the wars, all you need to become is the lighthouse, not the sword.

Akshay Vasu

#8. He's wrong he's so wrong he's more wrong than an upside-down rainbow.
But everything he said is right.

Tahereh Mafi

#9. 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

#10. People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium, you can say any kind of story in comics and you can say of any kind of story in animation.

Marjane Satrapi

#11. We lie together, quiet, under an endless sky, beside a bottomless ocean, and we don't talk about how these are all the things that brought us together. We don't talk about how we wouldn't change any of them.We don't have to, because these are the things we know by heart.

Jessi Kirby

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine.

Bob Seger

#15. Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

Oskar Kokoschka

#16. You could never tell if he was with you or not, so Cooley liked to talk to him just in case. Just to remind them both that this was still a human being. He never wanted to catch himself treating Jack like a thing, a chore to be done.

Leonard Pitts Jr.

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Listen. Don't just wait to talk.

Donald Trump

#20. I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

Oskar Kokoschka

#21. 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

#22. 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