George Grosz Quotes

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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
• The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the…
• 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, it…
• I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that…
• I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.
• Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.
• 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 had…
• My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it…
• 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…
• Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.
• My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving…
• I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their…
• It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.
• 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.…
• In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled…
• What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start…
• The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and…
• Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.
• 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 was…
• 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 let…

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