Franz Marc famous quotes

04-17-2025

We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.
-- Franz Marc

#Europe #Mood #Champagne
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

#Artist #Past #Age
Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.
-- Franz Marc

#Lovely #Tradition
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

#Art #Men #Desire
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

#Dream #Father #Moving
Religions die slowly.
-- Franz Marc
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

#Art #Mind #Guarantees
I am trying to heighten my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and flow of blood in nature, in animals, in the air - trying to make it all into a picture, with new movements and with colours that reduce our old easel paintings to absurdity.
-- Franz Marc

#Animal #Air #Blood
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

#Spiritual #Blue #Two
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

#Art #Style #Needs
Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?
-- Franz Marc

#Eye #Animal #Ideas
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

#Art #Animal #Looks
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

#Spiritual #Today #Sides
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

#Light #Attention #Someday
What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.
-- Franz Marc

#Today #Tomorrow #Natural
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

#Letting Go #Dream #Art
Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?
-- Franz Marc

#Dog #Shapes #Able

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