Talk:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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• A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

• My paintings are allegories not portraits.

• The German artist creates out of his imagination,inner vision,the forms of visible nature are to him only a symbol.

• The way in which I depict people was now influenced very strongly by my third wife.. and her sister. The beautiful, shapely architectonically structured bodies of those two girls, replaced the soft Saxon bodies.