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.
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
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
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.
People become artists out of despair. - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
People become artists out of despair.
If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it. - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.
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
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…
You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden. - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.
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
The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (r…
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
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 …
Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us. - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.
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