Artist Quotes by George Grosz

9 Artist quotes by George Grosz

George Grosz’s reflections on the artist appear in nine brief lines, each charged with his sharp, social‑critical humor. The collection gives a quick, biting taste of his provocative artistic commentary.

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Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.

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The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at…

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“The painter once believed in something, but now he paints only a hole without meaning, without anything- nothing but nothingness, the nothingness…

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How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

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My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the…

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The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about…

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The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the…

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In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service…

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My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend…

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What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the…

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I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years,…

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Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had…

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In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be…

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I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I…

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The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala…

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When John Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my South End studio at five o'clock on a May morning in 1916, neither of us…

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It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

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My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that…

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Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

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I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew…

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In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I…

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