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 integra…

- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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

People become artists out of despair.

- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.

- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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 wan…

- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.

- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (r…

- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.

- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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 …

- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner