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 seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it. — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse. — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
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… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
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… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
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… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order;… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful. — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
