It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture. — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing art to defend their collapsing culture. — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years,… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings,… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
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… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
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… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture. — George Grosz Copy Share Image
My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind. — George Grosz Copy Share Image
