Otto Mueller

"My principle aim is to express my experience of landscape and human beings with the greatest possible simplicity."

"I have always taken the art of the ancient Egyptians as my model, even in purely technical matters."

"I depict my life and experiences in my works of art."

"I will try to develop an entirely new style and I am sure I will succeed."

"By new style I meant mainly technical aspects. It is impossible to experience things from an entirely new angle through will-power; it has to mature in solitude."

"Since I am not well and have difficulty walking.. .More than anything else, I need lots of rest; even letter-writing is a strain."

"Appreciation Otto Mueller has until now been hampered by the circumstance that his timeless art provides no recognizable points of reference, has been spared the problems surrounding contemporary art and is difficult to classify under any of the categories that are so popular wit his terminology addicts."

"[the nicest artist and his works were] always of a high standard and truly free works of art and genuine because they matured freely and purely on the basis of his philosophy of life."

"He himself omitted certain things in his pictures that his contemporaries deemed to be of importance, in order to capture the essence.. ..with the greatest possible simplicity."

"The first encounter with Otto Mueller's paintings was in Berlin, at the showing of the 'Rejects of the Berlin Secession'. which took place at the Galerie Macht in the spring of 1910. And we met him personally the very same day in his studio on Mommsenstrasse. This meeting was significant for all of us and occurred at a fruitful moment; and, as a matter of course, he belonged to Die Brücke community from then on."