“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.” PeopleYearsNightStreetsCarPaintingSceneFilledDrawingDay And NightRestlessnessTime Of My LifeAgonizingPainting And Drawing Author:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
“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).” ArtistEnergyProcessPaintingDrawingReleaseRemarksProceduresPrintmaking Author:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
“A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.” ArtFactsObjectsPaintingCreatingPaintAppearanceObjectivesPainterObjectivityCorrectnessExpressionism Author:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner