"Brücke will remain in the inner sense; only the outer organizational thing should be dissolved."

"How glad I was to paint that for the soldiers it is very beautiful, how much respect and even love for art there is i…"

"He [ Otto Mueller ] himself omitted certain things in his pictures that his contemporaries deemed to be of importance…"

"We saw your [ Cuno Amiet's ] work with feelings of admiration and enthusiasm.. .Our group [ Die Brücke ] would be exc…"

"I finished my first woodcut in Dresden in 1905 after the Xylographic art, cutting out of the hard boxwood the clean s…"

"What we [Brücke-artists] had to remove ourselves from [the German bourgeois mores] was clear; where we were heading w…"

"The first encounter with Otto Mueller's paintings was in Berlin, at the showing of the 'Rejects of the Berlin Secessi…"

"I still remember the first time [ c. 1903-04] when Heckel who had started to draw a plant in the broad white and blac…"

"When I did not want to be satisfied with the hastiness of his [Heckel's] drawing, he called upon his right of styliza…"

"In 1905 I had the opportunity to observe Heckel outside the foor walls of the art room. I took thirty of my students …"