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Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian painter, graphic artist, and designer, known for his Expressionist style. His works are characterized by strong emotional expression and dramatic colors, which have had a profound impact on 20th-century art.

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People Self Used Imagination Used To Be Tempted Subjective My Imagination Inner Self Exterior

Author:Oskar Kokoschka

“I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.”

Trying Kind Dream Moving Memories Forget Secret Talking Essentials Models Remains Intimate Confession

Author:Oskar Kokoschka

“The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.”

Focus Awareness Perception Imagery

Author:Oskar Kokoschka

“How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.”

Men Art Girl Capable Miracle Repeats Works Of Art Assets Simplest Peasants Stock Exchange

Book:Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): memorial exhibition

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“I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.”

World Soul Left Responsibility Generations Mystery Responsible Awe Trembling Mystery Of Life Stranded

Book:Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): memorial exhibition

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“Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended, it seems that they no longer have any essential existence except in the visions in me.”

Ends Seems Existence Consciousness Vision Essentials Graves Cease

Author:Oskar Kokoschka

“The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our inner voice.”

World Voice Consciousness Intuition Imagery Boundless Inner Voice Woven

Author:Oskar Kokoschka

“Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.”

Consciousness Vision Sea Awareness

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“However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.”

Ifs Firsts May Faces Wonder Ugly

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“The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.”

Influence Essentials Fundamentals Transient Sensational

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“I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.”

Wanted Answers Paint

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“All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.”

Made Individual Left Expression Fundamentals Mood Uncertainty Dimensions Poetic Leaving Me

Author:Oskar Kokoschka

“Open your eyes at last and see... now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it, just pictures.”

World Book Eye Lasts

Author:Oskar Kokoschka

“True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.”

World Should Dream Artist Vision Objectives Visible True Dreams

Author:Oskar Kokoschka

About the Author

Born: March 1, 1886
Died: February 22, 1980
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 14

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