Lyonel Feininger Quotes

1871 - 1956

US Cubist painter, also associated with the German painters of the Blaue Reiter.

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Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.

1917 Letter to Paul Westheim, quoted in Wolf-Dieter Dube The Expressionists (1972).

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Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.

Lyonel Feininger
— Expressionism by Norbert Wolf, Uta Grosenick (2004), p.40

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