German Painter Quotes

Paul Klee

Caspar David Friedrich

Franz Marc

Lyonel Feininger

August Macke

Neo Rauch

Anagarika Govinda

The people itself (and I do not mean the 'masses') has always given art its essential style. The artist merely clarifies and fulfills the will of the people. But when the people does not know what it wants, or worst of all, wants nothing.... then its artists, driven to seeking their own forms, remain isolated, and become martyrs... Folk art – that is, the feeling of people for artistic form – can arise again only when the whole jumble of worn-out art concepts of the nineteenth century has been wiped from the memory of generations.

Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.

Lyonel Feininger

When intuition joins exact research, the progress of understanding will be accelerated astoundingly.

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

Caspar David Friedrich

Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.

Anagarika Govinda

It was the desire for living, vital expression.... which built Gothic cathedrals, which created Mozart sonatas. I believe it is going to stay that way for long time to come.

For me, painting means the continuation of dreaming by other means.