Alfred Kubin > Quotes

“The demiurge is a hybrid”
― Alfred Kubin, The Other Side

“Yaşayanların dünyasına döndüğümde tanrımın sadece yarısının hüküm sürdüğünü keşfettim. Büyük ya da küçük olsun her şeyi, yaşam isteyen bir muhalifle paylaşması gerekiyordu. İtme ve çekim kuvvetleri, dünyanın iki kutbu ve akımları, mevsimlerin değişimi, gündüz ve gece, siyah ve beyaz - bunların hepsi birer savaştır.
Gerçek cehennem, bu karşıtlığın kendi içimizde de olmasıdır. Aşk bile 'dışkı ile idrar arasına' odaklanmıştır. Yüce olan, gülünç olana alaya ve ironiye yenik düşebilir.”
― Alfred Kubin, Other Side

“Acaso el último y verdadero sentido de la creación del artista consista en extender un velo sobre el sinsentido de la vida.”
― Alfred Kubin, De mi vida. Desde la mesa del dibujante y otros escritos

“At times it sounded as if the river was hungry, and its waves licked spoonfuls of sand from the bank, at others it was lamenting in many-voiced, mystic song.”
― Alfred Kubin, The Other Side

“Para mí solo hay un infortunio: ¡tener que vivir y no poder crear!”
― Alfred Kubin, De mi vida. Desde la mesa del dibujante y otros escritos

“An artist is seldom really bad; a mean trick now and then, that’s usually about as far as it goes. Our sensations leave us no time for large-scale nastiness.”
― Alfred Kubin, The Other Side

“When it comes down to it, no one can deny their own temperament, it will always determine everything you do. In mine, a decidedly melancholy one, pleasure and misery lie quite close together. I have always been subject to the most abrupt changes of mood. This particular disposition, a psychological legacy from my mother, has been the source of both great joy and bitter torment.”
― Alfred Kubin, The Other Side

“He was single-minded in his relentless pursuit of an imagined ideal, an ideal he unfortunately never found fully realised or, rather, never permanently realised.”
― Alfred Kubin, The Other Side

“Whatever splendid triumphs the future may bring, we shouldn’t ignore present reality entirely.”
― Alfred Kubin, The Other Side

“For an active person it is the work of a lifetime to acquire it, but once you have grasped the sweetness of indolence you will hold on to it for ever, even if it is a constant struggle.”
― Alfred Kubin, The Other Side

“There was something beyond comprehension, beyond consolation about it all.”
― Alfred Kubin, The Other Side

“I had a black coffee and came to the conclusion I was fit for neither life nor suicide. ‘I’ll just vegetate somewhere between the two, waiting for the final blow like an ox at the slaughterhouse. It won’t be long coming.”
― Alfred Kubin, The Other Side

“He was single-minded in his relentless pursuit of an imagined ideal, an ideal he unfortunately never found fully realised or, rather, never permanently realised. Each successive object of his passion–the”
― Alfred Kubin, The Other Side

“All that was to be seen was grey mist with a few lights piercing the gloom.”
― Alfred Kubin, The Other Side

“I had a black coffee and came to the conclusion I was fit for neither life nor suicide.”
― Alfred Kubin, The Other Side

“Cuando la imaginación excitada se aferra a una quimera, esta termina por materializarse tarde o temprano.”
― Alfred Kubin, El gabinete de curiosidades & Autobiografía (Otras voces)

“Indignantly I declined the narrow, pointed shoes they tried to inflict on me.”
― Alfred Kubin, The Other Side

“You’ll understand my good mood when I tell you about the latest absurdity I came across.”
― Alfred Kubin, The Other Side

“La efimeridad de todo lo que existe aquí abajo es algo terriblemente marcado; pensar fríamente o buscar también lo bueno que hay en ello requiere un auténtico heroísmo.”
― Alfred Kubin, El gabinete de curiosidades & Autobiografía (Otras voces)