There cannot be creation without a lot of energy. Emil Nolde More Quotes by Emil Nolde More Quotes From Emil Nolde The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks. Emil Nolde breathe art needs Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. Emil Nolde wise love life There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones...and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed. Emil Nolde sky blue art Yellow can express happiness, and then again, pain. There is flame red, blood red, and rose red; there is silver blue, sky blue, and thunder blue; every color harbors its own soul, delighting or disgusting or stimulating me. Emil Nolde flames pain blue Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them. Emil Nolde painter soul spiritual 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. Emil Nolde beautiful believe art Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death. Emil Nolde silver-bells passion blood Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal. Emil Nolde deals accomplish sometimes A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality. Emil Nolde spirituality add art What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work. Emil Nolde artist real giving 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. Emil Nolde color discovery art 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. Emil Nolde empathy kind artist
