Otto Dix

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

— Otto Dix

Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse.

— Otto Dix

I will either be famous or infamous.

— 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…

— Otto Dix

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I…

— 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,…

— Otto Dix

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and…

— 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…

— Otto Dix

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to…

— Otto Dix

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting,…

— Otto Dix

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

— Otto Dix