Alma Mahler Quotes

“It's strange. When I put something incomprehensible into a picture, it's usually because the form and colour interest me and because it just happens to fit in. Thwn my friends come along : 'What is that suppose to mean _' And they rack their brains for an interpretation, finding so many ingenious explanations that I feel quite proud of all the unarticulated ideas concealed in my pictures." - Fernand Khnopff to Alma Mahler, while walking in the Prater in Vienna, from her diary July 1899”
― Fernand Khnopff

“Mental concentration is the one means of overcoming pain.”
― Alma Mahler-Werfel, Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters