Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.”
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Facts #Appearance #Paint

“Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.”
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Force #Honestly

“Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface.”
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Variation #Movement #Determined

“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.”
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Order #Goal #Integrating

“They (his Street scene paintings and drawings) 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.”
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Night #Years #Drawing

“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.”
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Art #Keys #Other Worlds

“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).”
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Artist #Drawing #Energy

“I begin with movement... ...I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement...”
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Believe #Movement #Born