Emil Nolde Quotes
The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.
Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.
A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.
What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.
The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.
As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.