A Nod to the thoughts of German Artists

Germany has a very rich history in the arts.  I plan to do a series of articles about the amazing breadth and depth of German Art. One of my small connections to German art is my art tutor in my youth was an artist trained at the Bauhaus.  It influenced my formative as an artist greatly.


 Every man is an artist.
Joseph Beuys 

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
Max Ernst

Max Ernst

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
Josef Albers

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
Hans Hofmann

Hans Hofmann/untitled 

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

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.

Franz Marc/Large Blue Horses

Hans Hofmann

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
Hans Hofmann

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Albrecht Durer

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
Josef Albers

Joseph Albers/Secret Forts