Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Quotes

• A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Art, Objectivity, Creating

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

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Creativity, Suffering, Trying

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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 Kirchner

  Order, Goal, Integrating

  "Kirchner and the Berlin street" edited by Deborah Wye, Moma, New York, (p. 36), 2008.

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• People become artists out of despair.

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Artist, People, Despair

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• You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Forbidden, Can Do

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• I begin with movement... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement..

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Believe, Movement, Born

  "Kirchner and the Berlin street" edited by Deborah Wye, Moma, New York, (p. 39), 2008.

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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 Kirchner

  Art, Keys, Other Worlds

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Jill Lloyd (2003). “Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: The Dresden and Berlin Years”

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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 Kirchner

  Night, Years, Drawing

  "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Meisterwerke der Druckgraphik" by M. M. Moeller, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, (p. 184), 1990.

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

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Force, Honestly

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• 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.

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Variation, Movement, Determined

  "Voices of German Expressionism" edited by Victor H. Miesel, Tate publishing, London, (p. 18), 2003.

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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 Kirchner

  Artist, Drawing, Energy

  "Uber Kirchners Graphik, Genius 3, Book 2". Book by E. L. Kirchner, 1922.

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