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Life is unfixed when one lives in Berlin, where one has to fight for a living. It is painfully base here. I see that a fine, free culture cannot be created under these circumstances and wish to leave as soon as I have overcome this big slump.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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remark, shortly after their move to Berlin - the bustle, tempo, and anonymity of city-life soon got tough to Kirchner and the other Brücke members

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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.

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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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