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Quote of Franz Marc, in a letter to his close friend August Macke, Nov. 1910; as cited by de:Wolf-Dieter Dube, in Expressionism; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 128
• Franz Marc is reacting on Macke who focused in this exhibited works strongly on the independent power of color
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The harvest of your Summer [1910] is displayed on our walls. I like some of them terrifically. The 'certainty' with which most of it is done makes me feel ashamed of myself. The thousand steps that I need to take for a picture are of no advantage, as I sometimes foolishly used to think. Things must change.

— Quote of Franz Marc

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The harvest of your Summer [1910] is displayed on our walls. I like some of them terrifically. The 'certainty' with which most of it is done makes me feel ashamed of myself. The thousand steps that I need to take for a picture are of no advantage, as I sometimes foolishly used to think. Things must change." in the context of "Quote of Franz Marc, in a letter to his close friend August Macke, Nov. 1910; as cited by de:Wolf-Dieter Dube, in Expressionism; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 128
• Franz Marc is reacting on Macke who focused in this exhibited works strongly on the independent power of color" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "August Macke" (Quotes about August Macke: sorted chronologically, after date of the quotes about August Macke) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

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August Macke

About August Macke

August Macke (3 January 1887 – 26 September 1914) was a German Expressionist artist, who was well-known for introducing bright colors in the early stages of Expressionism. He was part of the art-group Der Blaue Reiter, which he joined through his friendship with Franz Marc, and knew Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Robert Delaunay; before his death in the First World War, he would leave behind hundreds of artworks, celebrated by the people around him.