Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.Collection: Art
If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.Collection: Creativity
People become artists out of despair.Collection: Artist
It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.Collection: Order
You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.Collection: Forbidden
I begin with movement... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement..Collection: Believe
All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.Collection: Art
They [his 'Street Scene' paintings and drawings,he made in Berlin] originated in the years 1911-14, in one of the loneliest times of my life, during which an agonizing restlessness drove me out onto the streets day and night, which were filled with people and cars.Collection: Night
Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.Collection: Force
Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops [in Berlin]. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface.Collection: Variation
The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking).Collection: Artist