"After lengthy struggles I now find myself here [Dr Kohnstamm's sanatorium in Königstein, in Taunus] for a time to put…"

"[carving a sculpture in wood] is such a sensual pleasure when blow by blow the figure grows more and more from the tr…"

"to study the nude, the foundation of all pictorial art, in total freedom and naturalness. From.. ..this basis there e…"

"Life is unfixed when one lives in Berlin, where one has to fight for a living. It is painfully base here. I see that …"

"Marcella has now become quite at home and is developing fine features. We have become quite familiar with one another…"

"Completely strange faces pop up as interesting points through the crowd. I am carried along with the current, lacking…"

"The struggle for existence is very difficult here [Berlin! - in 1911 Kirchner and his Brücke-friends moved from Dresd…"

"..momentarily, we (Erich Heckel, Max Pechstein, and I) are once again at Moritzburg. There is nothing more delightful…"

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

"Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops [in Berlin]. Out of the naturalistic surfa…"