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"I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves."
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Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright and teacher, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expressionist movement.
"I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves."
"My plays are not didactic... they simply express my attitude to my 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."
"The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images."