23 Quotes by 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.

All that’s left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I’ve made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won’t leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was not there before.

There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings in the world.

Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.