First world war Quote by 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 start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?” quote by George Grosz — Download Open image

“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 and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?”

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I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years,…

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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,…

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Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had…

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In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be…

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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…

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The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala…

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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…

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

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My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that…

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

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“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in 1898, long before the First World War (1914-1918). In the title story he proves to his own grim satisfaction, and to mine as well, that Satan and not God created the planet earth and "the damned…

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“Father was always getting into scrapes when he was a lad. But the worst scrape he ever hot hisself into was the war, First World War. And just like with the swallow’s eggs, he didn’t want to fight anyone. It just happened. This time it was all on account of the horse. See, he didn’t go off to the war…

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“The meaning of sex is illustrated by two eponymous heroes of British history, King Edward VII (who flourished in the years before the First World War) and the King Edward variety of potato which has fed the British working class for almost as long). The potato, unlike the royal family, reproduces asexually. Every King Edward potato is identical to every…

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I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a nationalistic one.

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“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained…

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Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental Europe and…

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All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have…

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“When my father was a young man, during the years of the First World War and long before there was any inkling of the tales that were to form the narrative of The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, he began the writing of a collection of stories that he called The Book of Lost Tales. That was his…

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