Expressionism Quotes

“My goal is always to express emotion and experience... My paintings are allegories, not illustrations.”

“I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it.”

“I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.”

“We will no longer paint a forest or a horse as we have been accustomed to see it, but as it is in reality, as the forest or the horse feels itself, its absolute essence, which lives behind the appearance we see.”

“I avoid the representation of the real. I want to give the essence of things.”