Ernst Ludwig Kirchner quotes
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“A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.”
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“Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.”
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“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 KirchnerSource : "Voices of German Expressionism" edited by Victor H. Miesel, Tate publishing, London, (p. 18), 2003.
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“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 KirchnerSource : "Kirchner and the Berlin street" edited by Deborah Wye, Moma, New York, (p. 36), 2008.
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“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.”
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“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 KirchnerSource : Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Jill Lloyd (2003). “Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: The Dresden and Berlin Years”
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“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 KirchnerSource : "Uber Kirchners Graphik, Genius 3, Book 2". Book by E. L. Kirchner, 1922.
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“I begin with movement... ...I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement...”
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“If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.”
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“People become artists out of despair.”
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“You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.”
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -
“I begin with movement... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement..”
-- Ernst Ludwig KirchnerSource : "Kirchner and the Berlin street" edited by Deborah Wye, Moma, New York, (p. 39), 2008.
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“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.”
-- Ernst Ludwig KirchnerSource : "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Meisterwerke der Druckgraphik" by M. M. Moeller, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, (p. 184), 1990.
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