“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.” TryingKindDreamMovingMemoriesForgetSecretTalkingEssentialsModelsRemainsIntimateConfession Author:Oskar Kokoschka
“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.” EndsSeemsExistenceConsciousnessVisionEssentialsGravesCease Author:Oskar Kokoschka
“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.” InfluenceEssentialsFundamentalsTransientSensational Author:Oskar Kokoschka
