"You know my tendency is always to imagine things in my head and to work from this idea. I am going to explain my theo…"

"The harvest of your Summer [1910] is displayed on our walls. I like some of them terrifically. The 'certainty' with w…"

"I make the most outrageous demands on my imagination and leave aside everything else, theory and nature study, as oth…"

"I am trying to intensify my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact w…"

"Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of t…"

"All the pictures [in the exhibition, 1910] include a plus-factor, which robs the public [in Munich] of her pleasure b…"

"Art today is moving in directions of which our forebears had no inkling; the Horsemen of the Apocalypse are heard gal…"

"I am sure of one thing: many silent readers and young people full of energy will secretly be grateful to us, will be …"

"The editors of the Blaue Reiter will now be the starting point for new exhibitions.. .We will try to become the cente…"

"Dear August.. .I want to start like a child, to express my impression in front of nature with three colors and a few …"