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
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.
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.
dream artist vision
True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.
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.
answers paint wanted
I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves.
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.
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.