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Lyonel Feininger Quotes

There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships

There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships

Lyonel Feininger
Life, Backgrounds, Continuity

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.

Lyonel Feininger
Mean, Expression, Mind
1917 Letter to Paul Westheim, quoted in Wolf-Dieter Dube The Expressionists (1972).

The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.

Lyonel Feininger
Beautiful, Art, Water
Lyonel Feininger, June L. Ness (1974). “Lyonel Feininger”, Praeger Publishers

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
Air, Movement, Calm
"Expressionism". P. 40. Book by Norbert Wolf and Uta Grosenick, 2004.

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