"It [the city Berlin] stinks of perfume, they have water on their brains and they live as food for bacilli and shamelessly like dogs."
— Emil Nolde

January 1, 1970

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in a letter to Nolde's friend, 1902; as quoted in Expressionism, a German intuition, 1905-1920, Neugroschel, Joachim; Vogt, Paul; Keller, Horst; Urban, Martin; Dube, Wolf Dieter; (transl. Joachim Neugroschel); publisher: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1980, p. 36