Oskar Kokoschka Quotes

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

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  Dream, Artist, Vision

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• Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

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  Sea, Vision, Consciousness

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• 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.

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  Book, Eye, World

  "Von der Natur der Gesichte-On the nature of visions", lecture - Vienna, 1912.

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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.

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  Ugly, May, Faces

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• 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.

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  Voice, Intuition, Woven

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• 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.

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  Girl, Art, Men

  Oskar Kokoschka, Marlborough Gallery (1981). “Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): memorial exhibition”

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

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  Answers, Paint, Wanted

  "My Life". Book by Oskar Kokoschka, 1974.

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• Ahora sólo me queda el trabajo puramente poético, dar más vida a lugares concretos, ya que me he asegurado tanto del estado de ánimo fundamental y de la dimensión de la expresión que ya no me dejará tanteando en la incertidumbre.

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  Expression, Fundamentals, Dimensions

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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.

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  Responsibility, Soul, Generations

  Oskar Kokoschka, Marlborough Gallery (1981). “Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): memorial exhibition”

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

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  Focus, Perception, Awareness

  "On the nature of visions". Lecture in Vienna, 1912.

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• I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

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  Self, People, Imagination

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• Intento que mis modelos se muevan y hablen, que se olviden de que los estoy pintando. Esto no tiene nada que ver con extraer secretos íntimos o confesiones, sino más bien con establecer, en movimiento, una imagen esencial del tipo que permanece en la memoria o se repite en los sueños.

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  Dream, Memories, Moving

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• La conciencia es la tumba de las cosas, el lugar donde dejan de existir, más allá del cual terminan. Y cuando han terminado, parece que ya no tienen existencia esencial excepto en las visiones que hay en mí.

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  Vision, Essentials, Consciousness

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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.

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  Essentials, Fundamentals, Influence

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