In the working of wood and for the determining of its character I had had enough experience in my five-year pursuit of woodcutting. I also always gla… - Emil Nolde

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.

I had innumerable visions at that time [c. 1903]; wherever I looked, Nature was alive, the sky, the clouds, on every stone and among the branches of the trees, everywhere my creatures stirred and lived their still or wild, lively lives, arousing my excitement and crying out to be painted.

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