Oskar Kokoschka
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"Oskar Kokoschka" was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense Expressionism/expressionistic portraits and landscapes.

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The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.

That's why my work is now more powerful and less arbitrary, as if seen by another person, and illuminated from outside.

In the midst of the confusions of nature one person trusting eternally in another, and making himself and the other secure through faith.

All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

The two of us with a very strong, peaceful expression, hand in hand, on the edge within a semicircle sea, lit be Bengal fire, water-tower, mountains, lightning and moon.