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• How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the…
• The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the…
• The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at…
• I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and…
• 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…
• My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the…
• I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so…
• Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German…
• My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend…
• I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat…

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