Ernst Ludwig Kirchner famous quotes

03-30-2025

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Facts #Appearance #Paint
Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Force #Honestly
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 Kirchner

#Variation #Movement #Determined
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
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.
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Night #Years #Drawing
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
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
I begin with movement... ...I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement...
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Believe #Movement #Born
If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Creativity #Suffering #Trying
People become artists out of despair.
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Artist #People #Despair
You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Forbidden #Can Do
I begin with movement... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement..
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Believe #Movement #Born
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

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