"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."

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

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Variation Quotes #Movement Quotes #Determined Quotes

“I was quite a reader before I became a writer.”
“In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.”
“Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.”
“Have you dared to eat my son?" I laughed. Actually, it started out as more of a giggle that grew. Because my mind went straight to the gutter.”
“One could even argue that we have a duty to create and pass on stories about choice because once a person knows such stories, they can't be taken away from him. He may lose his possessions, his home, his loved ones, but if he holds on to a story about choice, he retains the ability to practice choice.”
“You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God. Isaiah once spoke as follows, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee”
“The animate earth - this moody terrain that we experience differently in anger and in joy, in grief and in love - is both the soil in which all our sciences are rooted and the rich humus into which their results ultimately return, whether as nutrients or as poisons. Our spontaneous experience of the world, charged with subjective, emotional, and intuitive content, remains the vital and dark ground of all our objectivity”
“I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.”

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