Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Quotes

#1. People become artists out of despair.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#2. I think that the economy, and the political system, has literally become such a disaster I don't know if it's possible to save it.

James Woods

#3. If suffering can be transformed into creativity ... I want to try it.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#5. Money is good, love is wealth.

Douglas Horton

#6. Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#7. Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.

Keith Richards

#8. I begin with movement ... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement ...

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#9. They (his Street scene paintings and drawings) 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

#10. His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.

Evelyn Waugh

#11. 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.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#12. A work of art like this,' he tells one of the journalists, 'demands that the life lived in it be a work of art as well. I am certain that Viktor Landauer and his beautiful wife will do the place justice.

Simon Mawer

#13. You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#14. Most of the views are visible to everyone but only those who had passion can see it beyond.

Namie Richards

#15. Teach me about some taxes. Why didn't nobody teach me about taxes on TV? Why don't nobody teach us about none of that man? What's going on? Why don't people teach us about getting together?

Brandon McCartney

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. I'm a pretty romantic person, I love little notes.

Shailene Woodley

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

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#20. 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

#21. A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.

Mollie Marti

#22. Hezekiah reigned forty-two years and was one of Judah's greatest kings (2 Kings 18 - 20; 2 Chron. 29 - 32). He not only strengthened the city of Jerusalem and the nation of Judah, but led the people back to the Lord. He built the famous water system that still exists in Jerusalem.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#23. There is irreducible chance in the universe.

David Gilmour