I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture. — George Grosz Copy Share
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
Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind. — George Grosz Copy Share
I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew… — George Grosz Copy Share
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… — George Grosz Copy Share
In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants… — George Grosz Copy Share
