It would be nice if you wouldn't call me an expressionist. I'm really not one. - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The people who live here [in and around Davos] are proud. The hard work, which is done with great love, the way they treat animals (you very seldom see an animal being mishandled) entitle them to be proud. In most cases, work here has reached the ideal standard of being done with love. You can see it in the movements of their hands. And that, in turn, ennobles the facial expression and imbues all personal contacts with a great delicacy.

Completely strange faces pop up as interesting points through the crowd. I am carried along with the current, lacking will. To move becomes an unacceptable effort [describing the crowds in Dresden].

[that] simple people brought their bodies and shared their scanty bread with the artists. Kirchner learned the course of life again in their houses.