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People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.

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Oskar Kokoschka

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.

Beauty, Face, Faces, May, Ugly, Understand
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True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.

Artist, Dream, True, Vision, Visions, World

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

Book, Eye, Words, World

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.

Dimensions, Expression, Fundamentals, Individual, Mood, Uncertainty

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.

Dream, Kind, Memories, Memory, Moving, Remains

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.

Art, Girl, Men, Peasant, Repeat, Timid
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