Art Quote by George Grosz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

— George Grosz

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

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

— George Grosz

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