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  • I am trying to intensify 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.

    Animal   Air   Blood  
    "Letters of the great artists - from Blake to Pollock" edited by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 207), 1963.
  • Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

    Eye   Animal   Ideas  
  • 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.

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

    1914-15 Aphorisms.
  • Religions die slowly.

    Dies  
    "The 'Savages' of Germany". Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) Almanak, Munich, 1912.
  • 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

    Art   Animal   Way  
  • We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.

    Europe   Mood   Champagne  
  • 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 works arose rather in defiance of their times.

    Art   Style   Needs  
    "The 'Savages' of Germany". Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) Almanak, Munich, 1912.
  • Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

    Art   Essence   Bridges  
  • 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.

    Life   Letting Go   Dream  
    from a note author wrote down on his return from Paris as quoted in "Expressionism" by Wolf-Dieter Dube, 1973, p. 126, 1907.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Artist   Past   Age  
  • 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.

    Art   Men   Desire  
  • 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...

    Art   Mind   Guarantees  
    "The 'Savages' of Germany". Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) Almanak, Munich, 1912.
  • What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.

    "The 'Savages' of Germany". Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) Almanak, Munich, 1912.
  • 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.

    Spiritual   Blue   Two  
    Susanna Partsch, Franz Marc (2001). “Marc”, p.26, Taschen
  • 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.

    Dream   Father   Moving  
    1912 Subscription prospectus of the Blaue Reiter Almanac, Jan.
  • Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?

    Dog   Shapes   Able  
    Quoted in Briefe, Aufzeichnungen und Aphorismen (2 vols,1920), translated by Chipp in his Theories of Modern Art (1968).
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