Paula Modersohn Quotes

#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. 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

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

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#4. I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

Dean Geyer

#5. I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the works of application that one must study them; one judges their utility there and appraises the manner of making use of them.

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

#6. All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

Albert Einstein

#7. 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

#8. The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.

Herbert Croly

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#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. It was I, no less solitary than he but having made the lesser use of the morning, who was to be pitied.

Teju Cole

#14. Our sympathies are most required when they seem least due.

Richard Ford

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

Max Lucado

#18. There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

Denis Diderot

#19. Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#20. Will be the 14th time I've coached in Neyland Stadium ... I've coached there more than some of their head coaches.

Steve Spurrier

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

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#22. Despite all their faults, campaigns are based on the fact that every vote counts, and therefore every person counts. As freestanding societies, they are more open than academia, more idealistic than corporations, more unifying than religions, and more accessible than government itself.

Gloria Steinem

#23. Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#24. Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.

Joshua Foer

#25. When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.

Epictetus