“There is an intellectual guardianship over the world, it is man... This is the last judgement, before them you stand... They help you when you work. You can thank them only through work. When you want to die, they sometimes appear to you. When you are completely empty and completely open, you belong to them.”

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

after his mental recovery
quote from 'A Painter's Credo' c. 1919; from his Davoser Tagebuch'; from Wikipedia: Kirchner
1916 - 1919

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German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker 1880–1938

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