I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of … - Oskar Kokoschka

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The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.

Oskar Kokoschka

I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.

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True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.

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Open your eyes at last and see. . . now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it,just pictures

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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.

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I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.

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However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.

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