"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."

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Source : 1917 Letter to Paul Westheim, quoted in Wolf-Dieter Dube The Expressionists (1972).

Lyonel Feininger

#Mean Quotes #Expression Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Womenâ€™s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind”
“The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great.”
“I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.”
“Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith...”
“My best advice to you â€” shut up.”
“This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.”

Source : Dennis Lehane (2010). “Shutter Island”, p.65, Hachette UK
“I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.”

Source : Letter to Thomas Carlyle, 7 May 1822, in C. R. Sanders et al. (eds.) 'The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle' (1970) vol. 2
“Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less favourable to the virtue of chastity, whose most dangerous enemy is the softness of the mind. The refinements of life corrupt while they polish the intercourse of the sexes. The gross appetite of love becomes most dangerous when it is elevated, or rather, indeed, disguised by sentimental passion.”

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