"...on the horizon, the neighboring island of Kimolos. I had the most profound visual experiences there: a tiny room, a window, a bed, a chair, the walls white, green shutters, black, generally dark, worn everyday objects, and the view from the window with those wonderfully bright, muted forms amidst deep blue seascapes. I understand Beckmann better and better. It was like his bathing cubicle paintings; you're surely familiar with them. Or like Braque's seascapes. You work like a dog, six watercolors in a row, almost without looking, sucking the paints out of the box, and then into the water and quickly a drawing before the sun sets. And then the diving... And everywhere you look, little things you absolutely have to see. You're kept busy." - Herrfurth in a letter dated August 10, 1960, from the Cycladic island of Milos to his friend Reiner Strub