Kirchner Quotes & Sayings

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Bitter does not age well. — Lisa L. Kirchner

The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking). — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country. — Nestor Kirchner

We ask from the heart that supermarkets, which are now more profitable and selling more, help us to take care of the pocketbook of the people by not raising prices. — Nestor Kirchner

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone ... and not just for a few. — Nestor Kirchner

You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling. — Georg Baselitz

Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition. — Nestor Kirchner

Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

People become artists out of despair. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

They (his Street scene paintings and drawings) originated in the years 1911-14, in one of the loneliest times of my life, during which an agonizing restlessness drove me out onto the streets day and night, which were filled with people and cars. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses. — Cristina Kirchner

It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment. — Nestor Kirchner

Love at first sight is a hypnosis: I am fascinated by an image: at first shaken, electrified, stunned, "paralysed" as Menon was by Socrates, the model of loved objects, of captivating images, or again converted by an apparition, nothing distinguishing the path of enamoration from the Road to Damascus; subsequently ensnared, held fast, immobilised, nose stuck to the image (the mirror). In that moment when the other's image comes to ravish me for the first time, I am nothing more than the Jesuit Athanasius Kirchner's wonderful Hen: feet tied, the hen went to sleep with her eyes fixed on the chalk line, which was traced not far from her beak; when she was untied, she remained motionless, fascinated, "submitting to her vanquisher," as the Jesuit says (1646); yet, to waken her from her enchantment, to break off the violence of her Image-repertoire (vehemens animalis imaginatio), it was enough to tap her on the wing; she shook herself and began pecking in the dust again. — Roland Barthes

I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina. — Cristina Kirchner

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly. — Cristina Kirchner

I bring a lot of passion to my life and my politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it. — Cristina Kirchner

I am honest and want to hear what the people have to say. I do not want to enrich myself in this job. — Nestor Kirchner

I begin with movement ... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement ... — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

If suffering can be transformed into creativity ... I want to try it. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner