Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschkawas an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth1 March 1886
CountryAustria
edge hand lightning lit peaceful within
The two of us with a very strong, peaceful expression, hand in hand, on the edge within a semicircle sea, lit be Bengal fire, water-tower, mountains, lightning and moon.
less powerful seen work
That's why my work is now more powerful and less arbitrary, as if seen by another person, and illuminated from outside.
eternally himself midst nature secure trusting
In the midst of the confusions of nature one person trusting eternally in another, and making himself and the other secure through faith.
voice intuition woven
The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our inner voice.
responsibility soul world
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.
fundamentals essentials influence
The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.
focus perception awareness
The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.
dream memories moving
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.
vision essentials consciousness
Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended, it seems that they no longer have any essential existence except in the visions in me.
self imagination people
I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.
girl art men
How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.
sea vision consciousness
Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.
may faces firsts
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.
answers paint wanted
I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves.