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“Ernst Kirchner: I'm glad, no proud that those brown shirts are burning my paintings. Max Klinger: What do you mean? Kirchner: Imagine how I would feel if monsters like that tolerated my work.”

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“• It’s a sad commentary on our society that artists are so often depicted as degenerates and derelicts. Tragic and disheveled subhu¬mans with nowhere to live and not a penny to their name. I mean, it’s kind of true, but it’s still hurtful.”

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