“Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.”
from: Years of Struggle 1902-14' Autobiography Berlin 1934
1921 - 1956
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German artist 1867–1956Related quotes
“A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
Addressing an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times (11 May 1967); often this is quoted without the humorous final sentence.
Context: A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
As quoted in Journey to New Beginnings : Finding Peace Within (2006) by Debbie Ziemann, p. 167
Quote of Wassily Kandinsky, 1919 - his self-characterisation in 'Das Kunstblatt', 1919; as cited in 'Klee & Kandinsky', 2015 exhibition text, Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau Munich, 2015-2016 https://www.zpk.org/en/exhibitions/review_0/2015/klee-kandinsky-969.html
1916 -1920
Picasso (1937), quote in: William Rowlandson (2007), Reading Lezama's Paradiso. p. 115.
Reply by Picasso when he was asked to explain the symbolism in the Guernica.
1930s
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 266
“writers without books, poets without verses, painters without pictures p198”