Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

“A painter paints the picture, and he paints it in the way that he wants it to be, and not in the way that other people want it to be.”

“My goal is always to express emotion and experience... My paintings are allegories, not illustrations.”

“We want to achieve a freedom of life and of movement against the long-established older forces.”

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

“With a believing trust in development, in a new generation of creators and appreciators, we call together all youth.”

“The great mystery that lies behind all events is the problem of form.”

“The technical is only a means, not an end.”

“Every person is a mirror of his own period.”