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Paula Modersohn-Becker Quotes






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I know I shall not live very long... If I’ve painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair (Paula Modersohn-Becker Quotes)
I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along that it had to come (Paula Modersohn-Becker Quotes)
We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside (Paula Modersohn-Becker Quotes)
Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men--thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall--yet with the most delicate nerves and fibers in them (Paula Modersohn-Becker Quotes)
The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I’m there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand Titian more and more and learning to love him. And then there is Botticelli’s sweet Madonna, with red roses behind her, standing against a blue-green sky. And Fiesole with his poignant little biblical stories, so simply told, often so glorious in their colors (Paula Modersohn-Becker Quotes)