- What do you think of Kokoschka's drawings?
- I do not understand them. Drawing derives from to draw, to describe, to show. All they show me is the painter's internal confusion and disorder. I saw his large picture of Prague at the Expressionist exhibition in the Rudolfinum. [...] In that picture the roofs are flying away. The cupolas are umbrellas in the wind. They whole city is flying in all directions. Yet Prague still stands - despite all internal conflicts. That is the miracle.
Conversations with Kafka, Gustav Janouch