Lyonel Feininger quotes
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“Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.”
-- Lyonel FeiningerSource : 1917 Letter to Paul Westheim, quoted in Wolf-Dieter Dube The Expressionists (1972).
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“The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.”
-- Lyonel FeiningerSource : Lyonel Feininger, June L. Ness (1974). “Lyonel Feininger”, Praeger Publishers
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“Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.”
-- Lyonel FeiningerSource : "Expressionism". P. 40. Book by Norbert Wolf and Uta Grosenick, 2004.
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“There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships”
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“Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.”
Source : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1976). “Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports”
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“My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.”
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Source : Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 1969.
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Source : "bstract Expressionism Creators and Critics". Book edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York, 1990.
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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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