Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops [in Berlin]. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface.
"Voices of German Expressionism" edited by Victor H. Miesel, Tate publishing, London, (p. 18), 2003.
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