N is for Nolde
(1867-1956)
German Expressionist painter and printmaker
Self-portrait
1917
"There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones...and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed." ~ Emil Nolde
1908
Green Landscape with Red Cloud
"I had an infinite number of visions at this time, for wherever I turned my eyes nature, the sky, the clouds were alive, in each stone and in the branches of each tree, everywhere, my figures stirred and lived their still or wildly animated life, and they aroused my enthusiasm as well as tormented me with demands that I paint them."
Spectators at theCabaret
1911
"The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors."
"What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work."
Lost Paradise
Linking to ABC Wednesday
