Emil Nolde Quotes

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German Expressionist painter known for his unique use of color and abstract expression. Emil Nolde's works were deeply influenced by symbolism and mysticism, often carrying strong emotional and symbolic meanings.

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“What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.”

Giving Littles Real Matter Artist Incitement

Author:Emil Nolde

“The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.”

Knows Needs Art Artist Walks Walking Paint Breathe Accidents

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“Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.”

People Love Life Wise Masters Difficulty Clever

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“A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.”

Art Values Spirituality Add Works Of Art Evaluate

Author:Emil Nolde

“Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.”

Sometimes Seems Deals Capable Accomplish Absolutely Nothing

Book:Unpainted pictures: Emil Nolde, 1867-1956

Source: Unpainted pictures: Emil Nolde, 1867-1956

“The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.”

Littles Art Artist Color Materials Discovery Tools Relation Invention Chains Ties

Author:Emil Nolde

“Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.”

Soul Passion Blood And Love Colour Silver Bells Vibrations Bronze Proclaiming Peeling Love And Passion Silver Bells

Author:Emil Nolde

“As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.”

Feels Kind Artist Pleasure Empathy Pursuit Shallow Decadence

Book:Emil Nolde

Source: Emil Nolde

“There cannot be creation without a lot of energy.”

Energy Creativity Creation

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“Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.”

Soul Spiritual Painter Spiritual Beings

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“There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones...and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed.”

Humans Persons Art Soul Spirit Heaven Hell Sky Consequence Blue Range Tone Colour Silver Thunder Human Spirit Stimulus Make Me Happy Unnoticed Blue Sky

Author:Emil Nolde

“Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.”

Believe Art Soul Beautiful Race Proud Art Is All Time These Days Greek Rising Solitary Rise Above Exalted Assyrians

Author:Emil Nolde

“Yellow can express happiness, and then again, pain. There is flame red, blood red, and rose red; there is silver blue, sky blue, and thunder blue; every color harbors its own soul, delighting or disgusting or stimulating me.”

Soul Pain Blood Sky Color Red Blue Rose Flames Silver Yellow Disgusting Thunder Harbors Blue Sky

Author:Emil Nolde

About the Author

Born: August 7, 1867
Died: April 13, 1956
Known for: Painter
Quotes: 13

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