8 Quotes by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things.

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

You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.

People become artists out of despair.

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.

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.

Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.

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.