Quotes About Franz Marc

#1. The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings. (in discussion with Franz Marc who demanded in 'Der Blaue Reiter' around 1912 a new art, in relation to its own - changing - time).

Max Beckmann

#2. Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance ... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

Franz Marc

#3. Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.

Franz Marc

#4. Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

Franz Marc

#5. What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.

Franz Marc

#6. Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?

Richard Bach

#7. Whenever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for a force underneath, which will someday come to light.

Franz Marc

#8. Was it possible to ever really know anyone, or was I simply the worst judge of character in all of history?

Mary E. Pearson

#9. The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

Franz Marc

#10. Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#11. Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?

Franz Marc

#12. Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Franz Marc

#13. Art will liberate itself from the needs and desires of men. No longer will we paint a forest ora horseas we like oras theyappear to us, but as they really are.

Franz Marc

#14. I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are ... The way they themselves look at the world and feel their being

Franz Marc

#15. I'm not on Twitter, nor Facebook, or LinkedIn, or any of these systems, because they suck in your soul and they will not let you go. Try to get out of any of them, and you will see. They are just like some religions where apostasy is punished by death.

Robert Cailliau

#16. Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

Franz Marc

#17. Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.

Franz Marc

#18. Thus, those who say they would have right without its correlate, wrong; or good government without its correlate, misrule, do not apprehend the great principles of the universe, nor the nature of all creation.

Zhuangzi

#19. Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times.

Franz Marc

#20. Todayart is moving in a direction of which our fathers would never even have dreamed.We stand before the new pictures as in a dream and we hear the apocalyptic horsemen in the air.

Franz Marc

#21. We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.

Franz Marc

#22. Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

Franz Marc

#23. My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

Richard E. Grant