Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Professions : Painter Born : May 6, 1880 Died : June 15, 1938 Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner creating objectivity art People become artists out of despair. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner despair artist people If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner creativity suffering trying 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. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner integrating goal order I begin with movement... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement.. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner born movement believe Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner honestly force 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. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner drawing night years 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. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner other-worlds keys art You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner forbidden can-do Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops [in Berlin]. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner variation determined movement 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). Ernst Ludwig Kirchner drawing energy artist Similar Authors Barry McGee painter Brion Gysin painter Bridget Riley painter Boris Vallejo painter Allan Kaprow painter Augustus John painter All Authors
