"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."

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

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Night Quotes #Years Quotes #Drawing Quotes

“Smiling without good reason is demeaning.”

Source : Ellen Raskin (2014). “The Westing Game”, p.44, Obelix Books
“The higher education system in these countries (US, Korea etc) has become like a theatre in which some people decided to stand to get a better view, promoting the others behind them to stand. Once enough people stand, everyone has to stand, which means no one is getting a better view, while everyone has become more uncomfortable.”
“I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.”
“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

Source : Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904). “Human Work”, p.203, Rowman Altamira
“He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.”

Source : James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”
“When I die, they might as well bury me at the finish line at Churchill Downs so they can run over me one more time.”
“Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the New York Times, the British monarchy now exists primarily 'for our amusement'. But as long as people find it amusing, and want to be amused by it, they will be happy to see it undermined but uneager to kill it off.”

Source : David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, Penguin Group USA
“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.”

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