In war we are all equal, but among a thousand good men, a bullet hit an irreplaceable one... We painters know well that with the loss of his harmony, the color in German art will become many shades paler..
In 1914, on the death of his close friend August Macke, in the first months of World War 1. As quoted in the exhibition 'Die Blaue Reiter', Gemeentemuseum the Hague, Netherlands 2010