Expressionism – Quotes

A painter paints the

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That’s life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving. Franz Kline

Since adolescence I\’ve had

Since adolescence I’ve had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It’s that German thread of the metaphysic – they were looking for the beyond in dreams. Dumitru Tepeneag

And that Newman wasn’t,

And that Newman wasn’t, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman. Donald Judd

I think more than

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. Don DeLillo

Sometimes the things I

Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings – composition, colour, expressionism, texture – can directly influence the making of a film. Sometimes it’s great that they are different, and simply taking a break from one medium to spend time with another, recharges the batteries and I feel refreshed. Dave McKean

I prefer to leave

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves. Barnett Newman

Backbends are not poses

Backbends are not poses meant for expressionism. Backbends are meant to understand the back parts of our bodies. The front body can be seen with the eyes, but the back body can only be felt. That’s why I say these are the most advanced postures, where the mind begins to look at the back. B.K.S. … Read more

We live in an

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects – the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism – are daily devalued by commercial art. Andy Warhol

The non-geometric biomorphic forms

The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and Expressionism will probably dominate for some time to come the tradition of Cezanne and Cubism. Alfred H. Barr, Jr.