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I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are... The way they themselves look at the world and feel their being

Franz Marc

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Franz Marc
Age: 36 †
Born: 1880
Born: February 8
Died: 1916
Died: March 4
Artist
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Painter
Printmaker
München
Franz Moriz Wilhelm Marc
Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc
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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.
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Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?
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Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.
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We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.
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Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.
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Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with 'style' because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their works arose rather in defiance of their times.
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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.
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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.
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Religions die slowly.
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Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
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