I see possibilities for a whole new way of painting, in which planes are used more freely. Weaving and embroidery make this possible. - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

[that all differences among the former Brücke members should be put in the past and that] ..every individual conflict must be silenced and that everyone join together in the name of the whole, that is for our modern German art.

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

The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting [referring to his printmaking].