Emile Nolde - Dance Around the Golden Calf (1910)
"What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work."
"The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks."
"The art of an artist must be his own art. It is always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colours."
"Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties."
"Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks . . . Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time."
"What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work."
"The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks."
"The art of an artist must be his own art. It is always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colours."
"Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties."
"Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks . . . Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time."
Emile Nolde (1867-1956)
