Lyonel Feininger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.
-- Lyonel Feininger

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The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.
-- Lyonel Feininger

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Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.
-- Lyonel Feininger

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There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships
-- Lyonel Feininger

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Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.
In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.
Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.
We should leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth, and corrodes mankindâ€™s belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war, and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern, and good intentions.
You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

Lyonel Feininger famous quotes

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