Wilhelm Lehmbruck Quote

Every work of art must retain something from the first days of creation, something of the smell of earth, or one could even say: something animate.


As quoted in The Art of Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1972) by Reinhold Heller


Every work of art must retain something from the first days of creation, something of the smell of earth, or one could even say: something animate.

Every work of art must retain something from the first days of creation, something of the smell of earth, or one could even say: something animate.

Every work of art must retain something from the first days of creation, something of the smell of earth, or one could even say: something animate.

Every work of art must retain something from the first days of creation, something of the smell of earth, or one could even say: something animate.