20 Quotes by Franz Marc

Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?

Whenever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for a force underneath, which will someday come to light.

Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

Art will liberate itself from the needs and desires of men. No longer will we paint a forest ora horseas we like oras theyappear to us, but as they really are.

Todayart is moving in a direction of which our fathers would never even have dreamed.We stand before the new pictures as in a dream and we hear the apocalyptic horsemen in the air.

I am trying to heighten my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and flow of blood in nature, in animals, in the air - trying to make it all into a picture, with new movements and with colours that reduce our old easel paintings to absurdity.

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.