Franz Marc
Franz Marc was one of the principal painters of the German Expressionist movement.
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- Art is metaphysical... it will liberate itself from human ends.
- Pure art..pursues no purpose at all but is simply a metaphysical art of creation,proud and entirely 'of and for itself'.
- New ideas are hard to understand only because they are unfamiliar.
- In this time of great struggle for a new art we fight..against an old established power.The battle seems unequal,but spiritual matters are never decided by numbers,only by the power of ideas.
- I found people ugly very early on;animals seemed to me more beautiful.
- Another instinct led me away from animals towards abstraction,which excites me even more.
- It is by no means necessary to have complementary colours appear in the order they follow in the prism;rather they can be 'distanced' as far as you like.
- Music and painting are basically the same you only have to have the organ to detect it.
- I've been an artist all my life,but education and environment and my own disposition have meant I have been half-minister and half-philogian.I would probably never have had the peace of mind as an artist had I not pursued these two other ideals at their respective times.