"How did I come to be an artist……" — George Grosz

"How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing"

— George Grosz

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21 Quotes by George Grosz

George Grosz has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The…
The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an…
I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless…
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…
My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to…
I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on…
Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the…
My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can…
I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage…
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. — Julian Assange
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of… — Neil Armstrong
NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they… — Neil Armstrong
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. — Margaret Atwood
The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just… — Amitabh Bachchan
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed… — Lord Acton
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't… — David Bailey
But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did… — Christian Bale
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort… — Alan Ball
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. — Honore de Balzac

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