Ernst Ludwig Kirchner quotes:
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You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.
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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.
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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).
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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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A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
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People become artists out of despair.
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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.
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If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.
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I begin with movement... ...I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement...
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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.