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> [I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-dix/i-had-to-experience-how-someone-beside-me-suddenly-falls-over-and-is/)

[Otto Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-dix/)

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## More by Otto Dix

> [You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-dix/you-know-if-one-paints-someone-s-portrait-one-should-not-know-him-if/)

[Otto Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-dix/)

> [Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-dix/stop-bothering-me-with-your-pathetic-politics-i-d-rather-go-to-the/)

[Otto Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-dix/)

> [I will either be famous or infamous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-dix/i-will-either-be-famous-or-infamous/)

[Otto Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-dix/)

> [As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-dix/as-a-young-man-you-don-t-notice-at-all-that-you-were-after-all-badly/)

[Otto Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-dix/)

> [I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-dix/i-had-to-experience-how-someone-beside-me-suddenly-falls-over-and-is/)

[Otto Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-dix/)

> [I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-dix/i-have-to-experience-all-the-ghastly-bottomless-depths-for-life-for/)

[Otto Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-dix/)

> [People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-dix/people-were-already-beginning-to-forget-what-horrible-suffering-the/)

[Otto Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-dix/)

> [Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-dix/not-that-painting-would-have-been-a-release-the-reason-for-doing-it/)

[Otto Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-dix/)

> [All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-dix/all-art-is-exorcism-i-paint-dreams-and-visions-too-the-dreams-and/)

[Otto Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-dix/)

> [Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-dix/everybody-thinks-they-know-what-art-should-be-but-very-few-of-them/)

[Otto Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-dix/)

> [I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-dix/i-m-not-that-obsessed-with-making-representations-of-ugliness/)

[Otto Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-dix/)

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