Erich Heckel

"I finished my first woodcut in Dresden in 1905 after the Xylographic art, cutting out of the hard boxwood the clean sketches with the slate pencil. Then followed the rounded iron, to arrive at the woo…"

"The first encounter with Otto Mueller's paintings was in Berlin, at the showing of the 'Rejects of the Berlin Secession'. which took place at the Galerie Macht in the spring of 1910. And we met him pe…"

"..differences arose that hindered the publication of the 'Chronik' (written by Kirchner and brought us to the agreement of dissolving Die Brücke group."

"How glad I was to paint that for the soldiers it is very beautiful, how much respect and even love for art there is in human beings, in spite of everything, and who would have thought that my style, w…"

"We saw your work with feelings of admiration and enthusiasm.. .Our group would be exceedingly glad to find in you a comrade in arms and a champion of its cause."

"He himself omitted certain things in his pictures that his contemporaries deemed to be of importance, in order to capture the essence.. ..with the greatest possible simplicity."

"What we had to remove ourselves from was clear; where we were heading was certainly less clear. ."

"Brücke will remain in the inner sense; only the outer organizational thing should be dissolved."