Franz Marc Quotes

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.”
- Franz Marc

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.”
- Franz Marc

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.”
- Franz Marc

Religions die slowly.”
- Franz Marc

Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times.”
- Franz Marc

We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.”
- Franz Marc

What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.”
- Franz Marc

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream.”
- Franz Marc