“Only today can art be metaphysical, and it will continue to be so. Art will free itself from the needs and desires of men. We will no longer paint a forest or a horse as we please or as they seem to us, but as they really are.”

—  Franz Marc

Source: 1915 - 1916, 100 Aphorisms', Franz Marc (1915), p. 445

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German painter 1880–1916

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