Otto Dix Quotes

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• I will either be famous or infamous.
• Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse.
• 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…
• Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the…
• 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 that…
• I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.
• People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to…
• 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 kept…
• You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
• I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience…
• 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…

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