Herwarth Walden quotes

  • Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every other impression becomes an inner expression.
    -- Herwarth Walden

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  • Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."

  • If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.

  • Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

  • People who think of children's nudity as a tool don't need freedom of expression.

  • David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.

  • It will appeal to girls who are confident and have a strong personal expression of style and identity in the way that they dress and what this says about themselves.

  • But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

  • Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

  • I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.

  • I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.