Dreadful! Delirious! Horrible! — Die Brücke

"..and so we wish to nicely lift these boys [of Die Brücke] out of their not completely clean diapers and spoke of gestural impotence."

"The struggle for existence is very difficult here [Berlin], but the possibilities are also greater. I hope that we can create a fruitful new school and convince many new friends of the value of our efforts."

"one day [c. 1905-07], Kirchner brought with him a volume from some bookstore with pictures of Meier-Graefe about the modern French artists. We were enthralled."

"The official end of die Brücke came in 1913, when Kirchner composed the tensely worked-on Chronik der Brücke (Chronicle of the Brücke). It attempted to speak for the remaining members but was unfortunately fatalistically final. When Kirchner began to assemble copies of this text, which claimed himself as the groups leader, the other members rejected it and disbanded die Brücke. Erich Heckel wrote on 26 May 1913 that differences arose that hindered the publication of the Chronik and brought us to the agreement of dissolving die Brücke group."

"We [the artists of Die Brücke] were overjoyed to discover our complete unison in the urge for liberation, for an art surging forward, unrestricted by convention."

"With faith in evolution, in a new generation of creators and connoisseurs, we call together all youth. And as youths, who embody the future, we want to free our lives and limbs from the long-established older powers. Anyone who renders his creative drive directly and genuinely is one of us."