"The artist's mission is to give shape to what is eternal in nature, to reveal its inherent beauty; he sublimates the …"

"When I enter a forest of tall fir trees, reaching toward the sky, I am surrounded, right and left, by their trunks, w…"

"This beautiful head [of Valentine Godé-Darel], this whole body, like a Byzantine empress on the mosaics of Ravenna - …"

"I call 'parallelism' any kind of repetition. When I feel most strongly the charm of things in nature, there is always…"

"'Parallelism' can be pointed out in the different parts of a single object, looked at alone; it is even more obvious …"

"If a few people who have come together for the same purpose sit around a table, we can understand them as parallels m…"

"If an object is pleasant, repetition will increase its charm; if it expresses sorrow or pain, then repetition will in…"

"[in 'Lake Geneva' - Hodler painted c. 1911]..the bands formed by the shoreline, the mountains and their reflection on…"

"There are two schools of thought on Ferdinand Hodler. According to one, he was guided by the worst impulses of the Sy…"

"Ferdinand Hodler was born into the Swiss proletariat in the poorest quarter of Bern in 1853. His father, an impecunio…"