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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

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..the feeling that pervades a city presented itself in the qualities of lines of force.

I already realized [that time] that only a new study of nature and a new attitude towards life would bring the much-needed renewal of German art.

Nowhere does one come to know an artist better than in his prints [and] the woodcut is the most graphic of the print processes.

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

..the only certainty is that he [written by Kirchner himself] creates from the forms of the visible world, however close or far from them he desires to or must come.

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