I found it very difficult to suddenly depart [from Berlin] since this year I had risen completely in the landscape and life and hardly needed awarene… - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

..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.

..art is made by man. His own figure is the center of all art.. .Therefore one must begin with the man himself.

After lengthy struggles I now find myself here [Dr Kohnstamm's sanatorium in Königstein, in Taunus] for a time to put my mind into some kind of order. It is a terribly difficult thing, of course, to be among strangers so much of the day. But perhaps I'll be able to see and create something new. For the time being, I would like more peace and absolute seclusion. Of course, I long more and more for my work and my studio. Theories may be all very well for keeping a spiritual balance, but they are grey and shadowy compared with work and life.