Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by August Macke

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German artist August Macke.
Last updated on November 15, 2024.
August Macke

August Robert Ludwig Macke was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter. He lived during a particularly active time for German art: he saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe. As an artist of his time, Macke knew how to integrate into his painting the elements of the avant-garde which most interested him. Like his friend Franz Marc and Otto Soltau, he was one of the young German artists who died in the First World War.

I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark. — © August Macke
I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark.
The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.
What I most cherish is the observation of the movement of colors. Only in this have I found the laws of those simultaneous and complementary color contrasts that nourish the actual rhythm of my vision. In this I find the actual essence, an essence which is not born out of an a priori system or theory.
The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.
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