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Nobody had made the same full use of the properties of acids and metal in this way before. Having drown on the copper-plate and left areas of it bare, I laid it in the bath of acid and achieved effects that astonished even me, full of subtle nuances.

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Nolde is explaining his technique of surface-etching to the other Brücke-artists

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Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

How glad I am to be almost alone as an artist among artists, with the whole swarm of artists somewhere else.

..colors are my notes for fashioning sounds and chords with and against one another.

Dualism is particularly important in both my paintings and my graphics.

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