Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Ferdinand Hodler

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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Ferdinand Hodler

Ferdinand Hodler was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of symbolism which he called "parallelism".

March 14, 1853 - May 19, 1918
To be simple is not always as easy as it seems. — © Ferdinand Hodler
To be simple is not always as easy as it seems.
When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and makes you giddy.
Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes form - the human body.
The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity.
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