Skip to content

In 1907 I was most strongly influenced by Giotto during my first Italian trip, as well as by Etruscan sculpture and the early Etruscan landscape painting in the Vatican library in Rome.

— Max Pechstein

Another quote →

Notes from Wikiquote

Pechstein answers Biermann's question: 'which 'primitives' had influenced him in his early painting style'

More quotes by Max Pechstein

What a variety of shapes exists in the lithograph when one prepares the stone for printing, etches it, and prints oneself. Above all, one must do the printing oneself!

Contented sleep releases the limbs. We await full moon. Await the dance!

I would like to express my longing for happy experiences. I do not want us to be for ever regretting. Art has been and remains the part of my life that brings me happiness.

Man, air, trees, world are laid bare and are one!

It is the sure certainty of having found unity with nature, this calm causes one of the strongest experiences.

All Max Pechstein quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Max Pechstein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.